The Path of Redemption Book Tour and Guest Post

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Book Details

GENRE: Alternate History

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BLURB:

With Grand Protector Faust missing and Caesar dead, Senator Frigus is trying to hold the
fraying threads of the Empire together by keeping this information secret. The Empire is already
fragile, and if the truth spills onto the streets of Rome and beyond, the Empire could crumble.
Faust is prisoner of the giant Bjorn Askå and his cellmate is the rebel leader, Boatman King.
Abducted by Askå, they’re now part of his grand plan to rule the entire world, with the Empire
his next target. Can Faust and Boatman forge an alliance or are their own ambitions stronger
than any desire for a truce?
A continent away, Bella, Maverick and the other rebels have escaped to the RIA where they lick
their wounds from the disaster of Faust and Askå’s attack on their underground headquarters.
They believe they have covered their tracks and hope the 35, leaders of the RIA, will equip them
to take the fight to Rome again, this time with the advantage of surprise.
Olivia King, though, she is tired of the fight. Traumatised from being tortured at the hands of
Maximus Nero and conflicted about her husband’s relentless desire to crush Rome, she is
unsure whether she has the energy to keep fighting those who have caused her so much pain.
With the world and its people in turmoil, one thing is for certain: chaos remains in a world
needing redemption.

Excerpt One

Southwark London 2030

Marcus flipped his eyepiece up and walked away from the vantage point he’d found for spying
on what Maximus was doing. There were other crosses lining London Bridge, but in the cold
January night, the bodies nailed to those crosses were quiet. If any were still alive, they were
conserving energy, swapping between trying to breathe and trying to push themselves up on
their nailed feet so their lungs were able to intake some life-saving oxygen. The orange glow of
street lights showed the odd misty puff of breath feebly forming and then dispersing, like death
swatting away the attempt at clinging on to life.
Indeed, the early morning, just before the arrival of dawn, was quiet. Quiet didn’t mean calm and
he was feeling the pulse of adrenaline rushing through him. All the soldiers around him were
because if they were guarding the son of Caesar then there was a good chance rebels would be
appearing. It wasn’t guaranteed, but Maximus wanted to make a show of crucifying someone
and he believed twenty-five soldiers as his protection was a necessary element to that.
When Marcus and his comrades were called up to be ready to go immediately, a few soldiers
pulled out their phones and texted their loved ones saying they were going on a dangerous shift
and to be prepared. Marcus scoffed at their fear and told them so. The response was that
Marcus was new to this city and he should prepare himself for encountering Boatman King or
The Beast, because that encounter would likely be his last on this earth.

AUTHOR Bio and Links

Tom was born in Essex and at 4 months old he and his identical twin were adopted into an
oyster farming family. Tom now runs the business as generation eight of Haward oyster
farmers. He has a fiancée, baby daughter and a cockapoo.
Tom has an MA in Creative Writing and has loved telling stories since he was a child, whether
verbally or through prose.
The Path of Chaos was his debut novel. He is also working on a six episode comedy screenplay
and tweets passionately about his family’s industry and the challenges it faces.

Website: https://tomhaward.co.uk/

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Author Guest Post

Topic: Did you have a minor character who insisted on playing a larger role in the story. If so,
please tell us about it. And if not, please tell me how you get the characters in your head to
behave.
Newen is a fascinating character for me, who was only meant to be a minor part to the story of my
main characters from the previous books. Being a trilogy, and Redemption being the final chapter, I
had plans for the main characters story arcs to reach their crescendo in a specific way. Olivia’s
journey was particularly important to me because of her trauma and seeing where that trauma
would lead her.
As a backdrop, Olivia has been to hell and back and from my first book, The Path of Chaos,
through to this book, The Path of Redemption, Olivia has been a beacon of what integrity and
resilience means. With that in mind I had mapped out Olivia’s path through the story and how other
characters would engage with her on that journey. Newen was a character I needed to help Olivia
as she navigated the complexities of her life, but only as an aside. Newen was only meant to be
someone who advanced the plot in a subtle way and then would fade away as a minor player in
this larger world.
Newen’s charisma changed that for me.
I realised how magnetic Newen is and how intriguing Olivia would find him, because of how
different he is to Boatman. It felt remiss not have Newen play a larger role in the narrative and
provide some fascinating interactions. The main characters have been a massive part of my life for
years and their stories mean a lot to me. I worried by including another character would stop me
expanding on Mav’s, Tobias’s, Bella’s and Olivia’s journey, but I found the opposite; Newen gave
even more depth to their stories and I’m pleased I took that path.

Tour Schedule

August 4: Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books!
August 4: Lisa Haselton’s Reviews and Interviews
August 5: Sarandipity’s
August 5: The Avid Reader
August 6: Sandra’s Book Club
August 6: Sybrina’s Book Blog
August 7: Gina Rae Mitchell
August 8: Candlelight Reading
August 11: Beyond Romance
August 12: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
August 13: A Wonderful World of Words
August 14: Country Mamas With Kids
August 14: Long and Short Reviews
August 15: Always Reading

Giveaway

Tom Hayward will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.

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