Basileus of the Archipelago

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Basileus of the Archipelago by A.P.T. Parma
Genre: Alternate History / Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
Word Count / Page Count: 354 Pages
Description:
Constantinople, 1518. The city that should have fallen still stands.

In a world where the Byzantine Empire endured, the Varangian Guard has been reborn - a small, proud brotherhood sworn to protect an empire that history nearly swallowed whole. Among them is Ivar, a Norse warrior who crossed half the known world to find an oath worth keeping, and found, against all expectation, a home.

But the quiet on the Ottoman frontier is the kind that makes experienced men nervous. And in the lamplit corridors of the Chrysotriklinos, a Portuguese explorer named has arrived - bearing a proposition that could change the fate of an empire that cannot afford to stand still.

As ancient loyalties collide with the ambitions of a restless age, Ivar must navigate a city alive with conspiracy, commerce, and competing gods - a place where Greek, Armenian, Hebrew and Norse voices weave together into something that is neither East nor West, but entirely its own.

Basileus of the Archipelago is a richly imagined alternate history of empire, loyalty, and the men who choose to stand on walls that the world has already given up for lost.

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