Stories by @davidtena

June's Journey

June Parker, a New-Yorker living in London, returns to her family's home on Orchid Island in 1927 when her sister Clare and brother-in-law Harry die under suspicious circumstances. This is the beginning of a long line of murders, mysteries and international investigations.

Shadow of the Sphinx

The time has come for the final confrontation. Appointed supreme magistrate and first minister of Egypt, Pazair and his wife Nefertet must join forces against the Finance Minister Bel-Tran, Pazair's sworn enemy, now openly presenting himself as spokesman for the conspirators who plan to overthrow Ramses the Great in order to seize supreme power.

Secrets of the Desert

Having found a conspiracy to overthrow the pharaoh, Ramses II, Judge Pazair has been sentenced to die. But the conspirators have reckoned without the love of Nefertet, the young woman doctor Pazair has just married, and the courage of Souti, his friend with the hot head and the generous heart.

Beneath the Pyramid

An Ancient Egyptian police procedural takes place during the reign of Ramses the Great and an incorruptible novice judge, Pazair, is called to Memphis to investigate the mysterious deaths of five guards standing watch over the sphinx at Giza.

Trajan's Trilogy

A TV series about the life, glory and death of the Emperor Trajan, considered one of the best Roman Emperors of all times. The series is based in the trilogy written by Spanish Santiago Posteguillo, which includes the following titles: "The Emperor´s Assassin's", "Circus Maximus" and "The Lost Legion".

The Three Wounds

Ernesto, a writer always in search of his great work, finds an old brass box that contains a photograph of a young couple, Mercedes and Andrés, along with some love letters. He will begin to inquire into the history of the couple through the data that he obtains from the letters. The intriguing image, taken on the day the civil war began, and the possible fate of his two protagonists will help him write his great novel as he becomes a witness to the wounds of love, death and life.

Aquitaine

A powerful historical thriller that crosses a century full of revenge, incest and battles. "Act like a lion. Lash out like an eagle. Execute like a scorpion." 1137. The Duke of Aquitaine – France's most coveted region – is found dead in Compostela. The body is blue and with the mark of the "blood eagle", an ancestral Norman torture. His daughter Eleanor decides to take revenge and for this she marries the son of what she believes her murderer: Luy VI the Fat, King of France.

Amaury

A romantic novel (with moments of both tragedy and comedy) on the general theme of jealousy, set in the countryside outside Paris in 1838-39. In Amaury, Dumas attempts an artistic dissection of jealousy, but all his characters keep turning into Alexandre Dumas, (who finds jealousy an unworthy emotion) and rise above it. Amaury is also of interest as Dumas' sole attempt at an epistolary novel, a form that (as this book shows) Dumas found uncongenial, since he kept abandoning the epistolary format for straight narration, and all of the letters read as if written by the same person, which, of course, they were.

Bellum Cantabricum

CANTABRIA AGAINST ROME It is the year 26 a. C. Rome seeks, in the steep lands of the north, how to conquer the indomitable Cantabrians and Asturians. While the fortified city of Bérgida is consumed in flames, Sekeios, an autrigon mercenary in the service of Rome, flees the camp after a serious incident with the governor of Tarragona, Gaius Antistius Vetus. Lost in enemy territory, he will be captured by Concan warriors, who will lead him to Aracillum, bastion of the Cantabrian resistance. The governor has sworn to hunt him down. Sekeios is alone and, before him, a journey of no return will lead him to kneel before the feared leader Corocotta. To survive he will first have to face the hatred and hostility of the Highlanders; and later also to the brutal offensive of the legions of Prince Augustus, whose objective is none other than to gain absolute control of the Iberian Peninsula. However, between sweats, battles and hunting the wolf, he will know the love of Turenniaˆ Everything is conflict. A conflict that will put his own convictions and desires to the test within the framework of the battle for the survival of the last free peoples of Hispania. A war that will change the fate of the known world and your own. Until the last consequences

The Iron Garden

For centuries, humans and ferorics lived together in harmony until a fairy's curse changed everything. However, the years have cooled the rivalry of both sides and there are those who are willing to fight for peace. It seems that the key lies in Elvia, a young half fairy and half human who comes to the court of humans to resolve the conflict. However, there the cursed prince, forced to become a beast with the arrival of every full moon, has a very different opinion.

The Betrayal of Rome

With 'The Betrayal of Rome' the trilogy on Scipio is closed and we are shown the twilight of the different characters known during the previous two novels (both friends and enemies of the African): Hannibal, Cato the Censor and his ally Gracchus, the slave Netikerty, the prostitute Arete, the faithful Gaius Laelius, his family, the playwright Plautus. The twilight of characters in a Rome that finally resurfaces victorious but doesn't hesitate to ravage for it even its most outstanding heroes.

The Accursed Legions

Scipio, known by the name of Africanus, who received many of the military qualities of his father and uncle, had also created some important enemies: Hasdrubal, brother of Hannibal; and the Punic general Giscón. Enemies also survive in Rome, where Senator Maximus Q. Fabius forced Scipio to accept the task of leading the legions V and VI which stayed neglected for a long time in Sicily.

Africanus: Son of the Consul

At the end of the 3rd century BC., Rome was at risk from the Carthaginian army under the command of one of the greatest military strategists of history, Hannibal Barca. His alliance with Philip V of Macedonia planned the annihilation of Rome as a state and the division of the powers between Carthage and Macedonia. But fortune intervened to change this fact. A few years before the war started, a child was born who was destined to change the course of history: Scipio.

Killzone: Shadow Fall

Killzone Shadow Fall is a first-person shooter video game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. It is the sixth game of the Killzone series and the fourth game of the series for home consoles.[3][4] Killzone Shadow Fall was released on 15 November 2013 as a launch title for PlayStation 4 in North America and 29 November 2013 in Europe. Taking place 30 years after the events of Killzone 3, Shadow Fall follows a new set of characters, putting players in the role of Lucas Kellan, a "Shadow Marshal", who is investigating a rising threat in the continuing war between Vekta and the Helghast.

The Cursed Crusade

"The Cursed Crusade" follows the story of the cursed crusader Denz de Bayle, a talented swordsman who has never let fear best him in a fight. He searches for his father, who never returned from Syria during the Third Crusade. Once he finds his father, he believes that he will be able to reclaim his family castle from his treacherous uncle and also remove the curse.

Tears of Sand

1643 — Mumbai —- Mughal Empire. Fynes Chapman, a London merchant, is chosen by the British Crown to open a new road on the Silk Road. Fynes travels with his daughter, Katherine, with the British East India Company. There, Arthur Wyatt, a colonel who will accompany them in the caravan to the Chinese Empire, awaits them. Arthur wasn't expecting a woman there and, for that reason, he'll see all his plans altered. Soon they will begin a journey full of adversity. Katherine keeps a secret that has led her to that risky expedition. Arthur's discovery of this will make him see her with different eyes.

Marcus Didius Falco (A Detective In Rome)

Marcus Didius Falco is the fictional central character and narrator in a series of historical mystery crime novels by Lindsey Davis. Using the concepts of modern detective stories (with Falco as the private investigator, roughly translated into the classical world as a delator or "private informer"), the novels portray the world of the Roman Empire under Vespasian. The tone is arch and satirical, but the historical setting is largely accurate.