The Gladiator (A War Within Book 1)

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As a thunderstorm sweeps the streets of Rome, Emperor Commodus sends a young man named Antonius into the night with a sealed message for his Praetorians. Antonius’s father, who is both steward to the Emperor and the secret leader of a small church, learns that it is an arrest warrant for his church, including his wife and daughter. Antonius races back into the storm to warn them, but the resulting tragedy leaves him bitter and angry toward God and vowing vengeance on the Emperor. The brutal gladiator master Scipio plans to mold this angry young man into a fighter, leaving Antonius warring within. Will he forsake his faith and fight or will he refuse? If God is truly faithful how could this happen? And how could God demand that he forgive?