21st century Roma Nova – powered by the Roman mindset, ruled by women

Praetorian Carina Mitela is courageous, fallible and sassy. She hefts a gladius or assault rifle as required. But can she defeat treachery, conspiracy and a dark nemesis and still keep an enduring love burning?
"My ancestors fought to hold this land sixteen hundred years ago. I'm not letting some throwback destroy it."

Over a thousand pages of action adventure and alternative history thrills in three books with nearly 200 five-star reviews on Amazon between them. Now includes the novella, CARINA.

Transformation, deception, rebels, vengeance takers, comradeship and an epic love story bind these four adventures in a new Rome founded sixteen hundred years ago by dissidents from the Roman Empire, and ruled by women.

INCEPTIO – The beginning
“Grips like a vice – a writer to watch out for.”  – Adrian Magson
Terrified after a kidnap attempt, New Yorker Karen Brown, has a harsh choice - being eliminated by EUS government enforcer Renschman or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother's homeland in Europe. In Roma Nova Karen finds safety – at a price – but the enforcer pursues her and sets a trap knowing she has no choice but to spring it...
B.R.A.G. Medallion and finalist, International Rubery Book Award

CARINA – A novella
"A fabulous thriller that really cracks along." – Discovering Diamonds Reviews
Is learning a lesson worth losing your life?
Bringing back a traitor to face trial seems an easy job for young Roma Novan officer Carina Mitela, until she is catapulted into confrontation with the powerful head of the Praetorian Guard. Will she collapse in face of corruption at high level or risk disgrace and destruction in standing up for her principles?

PERFIDITAS – Betrayal
“Alison Morton has built a fascinating, exotic world! Carina’s a bright, sassy detective with a winning dry sense of humour.”  – Simon Scarrow
Captain Carina Mitela of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces is in trouble – one colleague attacks her with a knife and another sets a trap to incriminate her in a conspiracy to topple the government of Roma Nova.

Once proscribed and operating illegally, she risks being terminated by both security services and conspirators. Seeking help from a not quite legal old friend could wreck her marriage to the enigmatic Conrad. As she struggles to save her beloved Roma Nova and her own life, she faces the ultimate betrayal…
B.R.A.G. Medallion and finalist, Writing Magazine Self-Published Book of the Year

SUCCESSIO – The next generation
“I thoroughly enjoyed this classy thriller, the third in Morton’s epic series set in Roma Nova.”  – Caroline Sanderson in The Bookseller
Roma Nova seems at peace. But senior Praetorian Guard Special Forces officer Carina Mitela is soon plunged into a nightmare of drugs, blackmail and breakdown.

Faced with a gifted and vicious enemy, Carina may have met an adversary she cannot overcome. In this part historical thriller, part alternate history, but always Roman thriller, Carina has moments in which to make the hardest decision of her life…

B.R.A.G. Medallion, Historical Novel Society’s indie Editor’s Choice Autumn 2014, Editor’s choice, The Bookseller’s inaugural Indie Preview, December 2014, longlisted for the 2015 HNS Indie prize

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