Before he was Constantine the Great, he was a hostage in a dying empire.
A bastard. A hostage. A soldier. An assassin. In the crucible of a fracturing empire and a forbidden faith, guided by one extraordinary woman, a boy becomes the man who will change the world.
The Roman Empire is splitting apart, carved between four rival emperors who trust no one—least of all each other. Into their deadly game comes Constantine: the low-born, half-acknowledged son of an ambitious general, sent east to a rival's court as a hostage in all but name. To survive, he learns to fight, to scheme, and to kill. To rise, he must reckon with the dangerous new faith spreading through the empire's shadows—and with Helena, the indomitable mother whose vision will outlast emperors.
From the war-camps and marble palaces to the back-alleys of a dying age, Son of Helena opens an epic trilogy about the most consequential ruler in Western history—and the woman who forged him.
For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, and Robert Harris.
