HISTORICAL FICTION · FORGOTTEN WOMEN · REBELLION
The Stories History Left Behind…
Historical fiction about forgotten women, forbidden love, and the lives history never bothered to record.
A HISTORICAL FICTION TRILOGY
The Book of Ash
Book One: The Woman Who Refused Rome
Rome has conquered kingdoms and broken rebellions. Britian is next. When Brenna is drawn into the struggle over how her people will answer Rome, she encounters Eira - and a choice neither war nor history will make for them.
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“What if the women history forgot were the ones who changed everything?”
THE WOMAN WHO REFUSED ROMAN
History remembers the men who conquered kingdoms.
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It does not always remember the women who refused them.
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Sybil Blackwood
History has always had a habit of forgetting women. Sybil Blackwood writes them back into the story through historically grounded fiction, fierce women, and slow-burning sapphic tension, and an unflinching approach to violence, desire, and the cost of survival.
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