FROM AFRICANUS is the first novel in the Legend of Africanus series. In From Africanus, the upstart Caesar, Justinian I, fights to defend his throne as the Nika Riots erupts in Constantinople, plunging the Empire into chaos. Justinian turns to his General Belisarius to pull Rome back from the precipice, and to prevent the darkness that has already engulfed the West from sweeping away the Eastern Empire.
IMMORTAL AFRICANUS
THE LEGEND OF AFRICANUS SERIES (AVAILABLE ON AMAZON)
IMMORTAL AFRICANUS is the third (and final) novel in the Legend of Africanus series. In Immortal Africanus, Caesar sends General Belisarius, Valentinian, Procopius and a small army of Roman Knights to Italy to reclaim the City of Rome for the Empire. But the Goth King and his hundred thousand man horde will do whatever they can to crush the Emperor Justinian's dreams of restoring the Western Empire.
Matthew Jordan Storm
AVENGING AFRICANUS
In AVENGING AFRICANUS, the sequel to FROM AFRICANUS, General Belisarius leads Valentinian and the Roman Army on a perilous journey to Africa in order to punish the Vandals for the Sack of Rome a century before. The journey is perilous - many prior expeditions against the Vandals had been tried and failed. If they fail there will be no rescue. If they prevail, the Emperor Justinian's plan for restoring the Western Empire will be within reach.
Author of Historical Fiction Set In Late Antiquity
FROM AFRICANUS
"THE EMPEROR" (AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON)
"A GRAND CONCLUSION TO AN EPIC TRILOGY ABOUT A GENERAL WHO SEEMED INCAPABLE OF FIGHTING FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN THE ULTIMATE GLORY OF ROME." - KIRKUS REVIEW OF BOOKS
HERACLIUS OF CARTHAGE SERIES (AVAILABLE ON AMAZON)
"STORM'S OBVIOUS PASSION FOR ANCIENT ROME HAS MADE HIM A MUST-READ AUTHOR FOR ANYONE LOOKING FOR A GREAT STORY TO PULL THEM IN AND NOT LET GO."- CLARION FORWARD REVIEWS (FIVE STAR REVIEW)
MR. STORM HAS JUST RELEASED "THE EMPEROR", THE FINAL BOOK IN THE HERACLIUS OF CARTHAGE, set in the 7th century Roman Empire. This two book series takes us from Heraclius' origins to his coronation, in THE EXARCH'S SON, and in the recently published THE EMPEROR, we follow Heraclius in a fight for the Empire's survival against the three most fearsome enemies Rome had ever faced: the Black Plague, the Persian Empire and the Avar hordes.