Benita Kane Jaro

Benita Kane Jaro

Benita Kane Jaro holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from California State University, Northridge, and an MFA in creative writing from American University, Washington, DC. Her interest in the ancient world began in early childhood and has continued all her life, as has her love of fiction, particularly novels. She lives near Washington, DC, with her husband, several large antique automated musical instruments, two carousel horses, and a lot of much-loved and misfiled books. Jaro is the author of the Roman trilogy The Key (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002), The Lock (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002), and The Door in the Wall (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002), as well as Betray the Night (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009).

Books by Benita Kane Jaro

Betray the Night: A Novel about Ovid

Betray the Night: A Novel about Ovid

In the year 8 AD, at the age of fifty, the most famous poet in Rome, Publius Ovidius Naso, known to us as Ovid, is suddenly exiled by the Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason. His young and beautiful wife Pinaria stays behind to try to salvage something of their lives and to work to bring him home. A woman alone, she is handicapped by the powerlessness of her position. It is not until she leaves behind the world of men to search among the people Rome has forgotten: the women, the slaves, the runaways and temple prostitutes, that she begins to understand what has happened to her life and her husband's, and what the world around her really is.

Paperback iv
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$12.00
The Door in the Wall

The Door in the Wall

Political intrigue: a novel on the life of Julius Caesar.

Marcus Caelius Rufus, a young politician, has holed up in a country town in the midst of a bloody and prolonged civil war. Great forces contend for Rome, and Caelius has ties to them all—the charismatic Julius Caesar, his beloved teacher Cicero, the hero Pompey the Great. Which side is he on? He must choose. Now he must reconsider who he is: his childhood and education, his loves and friendships, his complex relationship to Caesar, the man who has come to dominate his life. Before he is done, he will discover the shocking truth about Caesar, about Rome, and about himself. This book is a vivid and exciting read.

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$12.00
The Key

The Key

The first volume of a dazzling trilogy, THE KEY shows a world on the verge of collapse through the eyes of its greatest and most passionate poet. Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome, is dead at twenty-nine. His friend Marcus Caelius Rufus must search for the meaning of his life in the slums and bloody secret cults, the palaces and law courts of the tottering Roman Republic. Vivid, exciting, carefully researched and beautifully written, THE KEY has been a cult favorite in hardbound for year

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$12.00
The Lock

The Lock

This historical novel presents the major characters and events in the waning Roman Republic from the point of view of Cicero, the greatest orator and finest statesman of ancient Rome. It depicts the conflict that led to the collapse of the Republic and Cicero’s single-handed struggle which staved off its collapse for 15 years.

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$12.00