He was born Sabius of Salla. History would call him Saint Sebastian. This is the story of everything in between — and everything it cost.

From the frontier mud of the Danube to the corridors of imperial power in Milan, from the candlelit gatherings of Rome’s underground faithful to the riverbank where arrows will finally find him, The Empire, The Flame, and The Arrow follows one man through an empire that demanded his sword, his silence, and his soul.

Sebastian gave Rome almost everything. What he kept — a love the empire had no name for, a faith that asked him to be more fully himself rather than less — would outlast the empire that tried to take it.

A story of loyalty, forbidden love, and the courage to stand still when everything tells you to run. For readers who have ever felt that faith and their full humanity were in conflict — this book argues otherwise.

In the tradition of Hilary Mantel and Colm Tóibín, this is historical fiction that moves like a heartbeat.