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Emperator - Book Tour and Giveaway

3/15/2022

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Emperator
The Chronicles of Alcinia Book VI
by Miriam Newman
Genre: Historical Fantasy Romance 

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Grandson of one of history’s greatest generals, Sergius is a warrior without equal. It has been easy for him to be a hero when he was expected to be. When he finds himself fighting for the freedom of his grandfather’s country and the heart of a woman, he must be a hero because he is.


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​He had merely cracked the front door and it had not creaked. This time, it opened fully and it did.
He tensed, looking at a figure framed against sunlight. Probably still blinded from it, she did not see him at first, hunkered down against one of the walls.
Young, slight and dark haired, she had to be either Omani or Domidian.
“Felicitas,” he said.
She cringed, visibly.
“Aspetta,” he said quickly. “Hold on. I am not going to hurt you.”
She stood like a deer waiting for the arrow that was going to finish it.
“Omani?” he asked in what he hoped was a friendly tone. He knew how he looked—young, strong, armed, dangerous.
She nodded.
“I am a friend,” he tried to reassure her. “Omani, from Havacia. We have just beaten the last of the Domidians.”
“Vero?” she half whispered.
He nodded. “Reale. You are free.”
“Who are you?” she demanded. Now that she didn’t look so much like a frozen chicken, she was attractive, with long hair as black as obsidian. She had light olive skin and dark eyes, faintly tilted at the ends, giving her an exotic, almost child-like look, but she was no child. There was nothing remarkable about her dress except for how smudged and dirty it was. Otherwise, it was the classic woman’s gown of pleated white linen cinched with a corded tie, and she wore sandals.
Sergius got slowly to his feet.
“No, who are you?” he asked.
“I was first,” she responded. “What are you doing here?”
Sergius laughed softly. “It’s my house. Why are you in it?”
“Your house?”
“I do not object,” he spelled out. “I just wonder what you are doing here.”
“What would anyone do here?” she responded. “Getting food. Looking for a place to stay. We have nothing here. You should know, if you have fought the Domidians.”
“Yes, I heard,” he said, remembering the shepherd who said they always took his sheep.
“I have not hurt anything,” she protested.
Sergius half raised his hand in the universal gesture of peace. “No, no, I did not say so. You just startled me.”
“You scared me,” she said. She didn’t sound a bit submissive. It was more an accusation, as if he should not be in his own family’s villa. “How do you say this is your house?”
“It was my grandfather’s,” he responded.
Suddenly, her expression changed and she said something so foul he had never heard it from a woman.

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Fantasy poetry driven by myths and legends has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I was published in poetry before catching the romance writing bug. I bring that background to my writing along with a lifelong addiction to horses, an 18 year career in various areas of psychiatric social services and many trips to Ireland, where I nurture my muse. My published works range from contemporary fantasy romance to fantasy historical, futuristic, science fiction and historical romance. Currently I live in rural Pennsylvania with a “motley crew” of rescue animals. You can see my books at www.miriamnewman.com.


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56 Comments
Beyond Comps
3/15/2022 11:53:08 am

Great cover!

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Shirley Ann Speakman
3/15/2022 12:19:45 pm

Congratulations on your new release Miriam Newman. I enjoyed the excerpt too.

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wendy hutton
3/15/2022 02:11:01 pm

very nice cover

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Bea LaRocca
3/15/2022 02:45:06 pm

I like the cover, synopsis and excerpt, this is a must read book and series for me. Thank you for sharing your bio and book details and for offering a giveaway

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Sherry
3/15/2022 05:42:19 pm

I love the cover and the excerpt.

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Marcy Meyer
3/15/2022 06:26:16 pm

Love the cover. It looks great. Sounds like a really good story.

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Miriam Newman link
3/15/2022 06:39:05 pm

Thanks for stopping by! Sergius is my bad boy; I love him. Hope some of you will love him, too. He's worth it.

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Terri Quick
3/15/2022 09:14:36 pm

Great cover

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Marisela Zuniga
3/15/2022 11:01:07 pm

this sounds really good, thanks for sharing

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bn100
3/15/2022 11:09:44 pm

cool

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Miriam Newman link
3/16/2022 02:34:00 am

Thanks for the comments. I was excited about this cover because it's not that often I find a model who so greatly resembles my mental image of the character. It happened this time! So nice.

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Kari B
3/16/2022 07:56:03 am

Sounds like a hero I would love to read more about.

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Jon Heil
3/16/2022 09:05:15 am

Hope things go well in the kingdom

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Michele Soyer
3/16/2022 12:49:13 pm

Just love the title. Draws me right in.

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Miriam Newman link
3/16/2022 05:00:23 pm

Thanks for your comments. Emperator is actually a word I used to try to convey the sense of the old Roman Empire but in a new, fantasy context. I love creating worlds, but it's also not hard to hear echoes of old ones. That's where the love of history comes in.

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Bernie Wallace
3/17/2022 06:11:29 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Miriam Newman link
3/17/2022 07:47:15 am

Hi, Bernie. It seems I get quicker as I go along. This one took a couple of months. Polishing, editing and preparation, of course, take longer.

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Debbie P
3/17/2022 10:22:40 am

Great cover! This sounds like book I am really going to like!

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Barbara Montag
3/18/2022 09:31:15 am

Historical Fantasy Romance - sounds like a great series to me!
Thank you for sharing this.

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Valerie Seal
3/18/2022 12:19:04 pm

All the best with this.

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Susan Smith
3/18/2022 05:35:02 pm

Sounds like a good book. I like the cover and excerpt.

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Miriam Newman link
3/18/2022 05:43:24 pm

Thanks for stopping by and hope those who observe had a good St. Patrick's Day. Still eating corned beef and cabbage here. Friends took me for a gin tasting. Whoa! Gin with jalapeno. There has to be a book in there somewhere. Meanwhile, give Emperator a try.

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David Basile
3/18/2022 09:17:14 pm

Looks like a good book.

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David Hollingsworth
3/18/2022 09:32:31 pm

Sounds like a great story.

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Miriam Newman link
3/18/2022 11:56:51 pm

Thanks to the two Davids for stopping in and commenting. Actually, I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of men who read my books. I think it may be in part because they have a strong military and historical basis that I find essential to world building. Please feel free to follow the Amazon link to get a free sample download.

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Ann Fantom
3/19/2022 11:07:23 am

This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

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Wendy Jensen
3/19/2022 04:26:57 pm

The book details sounds like I would like the hero.

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Miriam Newman link
3/19/2022 06:20:04 pm

Sergius is not an easy character. He is no one's idea of a stereotype. The story is as much about his development as it is about love, war, and the parallel stories of the two women he loves. He is strong--not a tortured hero--but channeling that strength can be another matter. He was fun to write.

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Danielle Day
3/20/2022 01:23:16 am

I like it!

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Serge B
3/20/2022 06:51:32 am

I enjoyed the excerpt

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Amy F
3/20/2022 10:13:43 am

Sounds like a great romance read!

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beth shepherd
3/20/2022 01:48:40 pm

This looks like a great read! Thank you

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Debbi Wellenstein
3/20/2022 03:50:01 pm

I enjoyed the excerpt. Thanks for the giveaway!

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Cynthia C
3/20/2022 04:14:17 pm

The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

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kelly tupick
3/20/2022 05:23:58 pm

The book sounds like an interesting read.

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Miriam Newman link
3/20/2022 10:57:10 pm

I hope some of you had some good weekend reading and a happy first day of spring.

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Abigail Gibson
3/21/2022 04:13:56 pm

Looks like a great book!

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k
3/23/2022 03:09:14 pm

I can't wait to read this, sounds so interesting! Thank you for sharing!

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Miriam Newman link
3/24/2022 07:10:49 am

Thanks for visiting. I hope you guys will have a look at the book. I love Sergius. His father is a king, his grandfather was the greatest warrior of his time. You might say Sergius was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. It's just expected that he will be a hero and he's got the goods. The only question is whether he will use them. He has doubts no one else has ever seen, and then finds himself in a foreign land where the throne stands empty and two women love him. All he has to do to have them all is to renounce everything he has ever had.

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Kelly D
3/25/2022 04:49:32 pm

The book sounds great, especially the main character.

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Miriam Newman link
3/25/2022 11:15:01 pm

Thanks, Kelly. The book is written primarily from the male character's point of view because, as you say, he is extremely interesting. But he also has two women in his life: one barely more than a concubine, the other a starving artist he finds in his grandfather's warring country. He is torn between them--which gave a good chance to portray them as well--and between his own country and the one where he is sent, and between his own impulses and the expectations he finds put upon him. It was an enjoyable book to write.

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Miriam Newman link
3/28/2022 12:04:35 pm

OK, for your good folks who have stuck with me so far, here is an excerpt you will not find elsewhere. This is the man who would be Emperator.
“Gratuitas!” he shouted back, met with cheers and a surge of citizens finally breaking through the line to happily assault the men coming ashore, Omani and Northerner alike. Girls grabbed both his arms and another pinched his cheek, while men pushed from behind, laughing and propelling him into the crowd. The victors and the vanquished mingled like old friends, back-slapping and exchanging bottles, speaking a babble of tongues. A likely-looking girl, all smooth olive skin and glossy black hair, virtually climbed him, pulling his head down and planting a kiss on him.
“Eh, Omani! You come home at last.”
“Not me, my grandfather,” he said, smiling.
“Close enough. They all come. Where is better than Omana?” She called behind her to girlfriends. “Rosa, Berenita, this one’s one of us. Come make him welcome.”
It was bedlam, the guards had lost all control, and the crowd and a bevy of laughing girls bore him down the street to a tavern, where the first one ducked in.
“Come,” she invited. “Domidians shut these places down. They said they were trouble spots.” She winked at him. “They are.”
Inside, a roiling mob like a tide was pulling benches out of storage and uncovering a bar inches deep in dust. It flew everywhere as they gave it a rough cleaning, thumping similarly dusty bottles and flagons onto its scarred surface.
A grizzled-looking man smelling of garlic threw an arm around his neck, grinning happily. “Drink, drink,” he urged. “We hid these in caves the devils never knew about. Everybody drink!”
Domidians had had no sense of humor about such things, but Omanis had loved their wine since time immemorial. Now the fruit of everyone’s vines was being shared indiscriminately. There was no payment required. Sergius had more liquor plied on him in minutes than he could have drunk in weeks. Beside him, the girls who had abducted him were getting royally drunk.
It was starting already, he thought. Well, to the victor, the spoils. One of them plopped down in his lap, fondling him suggestively through his braes.
“Ooh, bad me, I like that,” she laughed. “I bet you fuck like a stallion.”
Well, it was said Omani women had no shame. That was all right with him. He didn’t have any, either.
“I do,” he said."

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Thomas Gibson
4/8/2022 06:50:52 pm

Excellent work!

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Miriam Newman link
4/8/2022 08:21:12 pm

Thank you.

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Ken Ohl
4/10/2022 04:29:15 pm

This book looks intriguing

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jose rosado
4/14/2022 08:22:28 am

What do you think of the book details? Do you have any questions for the author?


A very good blurb


THX

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Daniel M
4/14/2022 12:40:42 pm

like the cover

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Miriam Newman link
4/14/2022 01:19:00 pm

Sergius says he looks like an enemy's worst nightmare.

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Francine Anchondo
4/14/2022 08:37:53 pm

Sounds like a good book

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Diane Eral
4/15/2022 12:04:44 am

I really love the cover of your book. Sergius sounds like a bad boy, which make me want to read your book!! Thank you for this giveaway and Good Luck on your book!

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Jen Reed
4/15/2022 12:26:45 am

This genre of book is so fun to read. I love historical romances and adding fantasy is fun. The cover art is eye catching!

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Sarah L
4/15/2022 02:19:51 am

Looks like interesting books.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Miriam Newman link
4/15/2022 05:49:48 am

Thank all of you for visiting. Today is the last day of the tour, so I hope you will take a look at the book and wish you good luck in the drawing. You can look for the sequel, Caravanserai, in the coming months!

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jason jennings
4/15/2022 08:27:55 pm

love the cover cant wait to read it.

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Rajee Pandi
4/15/2022 10:06:13 pm

I love the cover looks so interesting

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Renata
4/15/2022 10:48:08 pm

Sounds good!

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