Darius – Pello Island 2 by A. L. Jambor

Title: Darius – Pello Island 2
Author: A. L. Jambor
Price: FREE Dec 14 – 18,2012
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For Darius, the son of a Roman senator, life has been easy. He grew up in the lap of luxury, and never dreamed it would end. Then he met Cassia, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and his life of ease and privilege ended. Falsely accused of killing her father, Quintus, he is sentenced to Pello Island, a prison colony south of Sicily. When his ship arrives at the Pello Island dock, he is thrown off the ship and rescued by an inmate named Livia. She brings him home and teaches him how to survive life on the island. She also teaches how to put someone else’s needs before his own.

Six months pass and as promised, Cassia arrives from Rome with her friend, Amatus, a fisherman who loves her. She has been anticipating her reunion with Darius, and is saddened when he seems less than enthusiastic about seeing her. She doesn’t know that Darius is sick, that something is growing in his brain that has altered his personality and is slowly driving him mad. When Cassia becomes pregnant, she fears for her unborn child’s life. How will she protect her child from her father’s rages?

As Darius descends into madness, his relationship with Cassia evaporates, while his bond with Antonia, a noblewoman sentenced to Pello Island for murdering her husband, grows stronger. Darius and Antonia, two damaged people, have a tumultuous affair filled with physical violence and passion. Antonia loves him, but as Darius loses touch with reality, she fears losing him forever.

There hasn’t been a ship from Rome in months, and fear grows in the hearts of the inmates on Pello Island. They don’t know that the gods of Rome have accidentally unleashed an event so cataclysmic that it will alter their lives for the next two thousand years.

Darius is the second book in the Pello Island series. It is the story of four people, bound together by events they cannot control, and one man’s inability to accept his destiny.