Deo Volente! (God Willing)

Download or read book Deo Volente! (God Willing) written by Giselle Aguiar and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Italy, 69 AD - A Romeo & Juliet story set in 1st Century Italy with an awesome ending! Claudia: The twenty-year-old daughter of the Roman Magistrate attends a Christian church where she meets and falls in love with the son of the bishop. Anthony: The son of the bishop and a local merchant, he falls in love with Claudia as he teaches her about Christianity. Marcus: Claudias father betroths her to his assistant, Darius. Aurelia: Claudias aunt arrives after serving as a Vestal Virgin for thirty years with hopes of marrying her childhood love, Darius. Step back in time and experience what it would have been like to be the daughter of the Roman magistrate, curious about the new sect of Christianity. Betrothed to a man she doesn't love, in love with a man her family would disapprove of, told that the gods she grew up believing in are false, Claudia learns to seek and follow Gods will while coping with her tyrannical fathers plan for her future and his goal of maintaining his dignitas.