Fortune’s Favorites by Colleen McCullough

In the turbulent years following the fall of Gaius Marius, Rome stands at the edge of transformation. Ambition, betrayal, and destiny intertwine as two men — Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gnaeus Pompeius — rise to power. Sulla’s ruthless brilliance and Pompey’s audacious youth drive the Republic toward both glory and ruin, while a young Julius Caesar begins his ascent amid treachery and shifting alliances. From the Senate’s intrigues to the blood-soaked battlefields of the East, Fortune’s Favorites captures the grandeur and peril of Rome’s most ambitious age — a world where power belongs only to those bold enough to seize it.