Inceptum Finis, The Beginning of the End

The Roman army may have won the Third Punic War and given Rome control of the Mediterranean, but for Sempronius Viatores that's not enough. Making a living in post war Rome is getting more difficult. Semper, as he's known, doesn't want to be a carpenter like his short-tempered father. Semper wants to buy a farm. Land is the secret of financial security.

Semper must overcome his father's angry stubbornness, the fallout from his own infatuation with a fickle young woman, and a physical handicap that has defined his life. Politics seems to be an answer and Semper joins the ranks of the charismatic Tiberius Gracchus who raises a plebeian challenge to the power of the patricians and the Roman Senate. Tying his fate to the fortunes of Tiberius will endanger both Semper and his family.