Trader, strategist, and survivor who rises within the criminal and commercial underworld of Rome. Mother of three.

Cala moves through Rome as an outsider who refuses to remain one. She learns the city’s rules only so she can break them when the time is right. In a world of emperors, factions, and bloodsport, she fights a quieter, more relentless war—one measured not in glory, but in the lives of her children.