Neither Yields

Two gladiator rivals face a fight neither can bear to win.

About the story

He enters the arena to buy his sister’s freedom. His rival changes the stakes.

Verus signs himself into the House of Arrius with one purpose: earn enough in the ring to buy his sister back from their father’s creditor. Four years is the price put on that hope, provided he survives long enough to pay it.

In a world where bodies are appraised and courage becomes entertainment, a rival can be a threat to the future he is fighting for. Priscus becomes something much harder to measure. When two men trained to defeat each other can no longer treat victory as simple, the arena demands an answer neither can give without cost.

An M/M historical romance inspired by Priscus and Verus, imagining an intimate story within the brutal spectacle of ancient Rome. The characters’ private relationship is fiction.

Your kind of romance?

• Gladiator rivals
• Ancient Rome
• Family loyalty and the price of freedom
• M/M historical fiction inspired by Priscus and Verus

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From the opening pages

So. Here I was. Twenty-eight years old, free-born, voluntarily, legally, with full ceremony and a magistrate’s seal, about to become a slave by contract in the House of Arrius, Capua, for the explicit and advertised purpose of being beaten for money in front of strangers.

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