Sands of Fate: The Wrong Side of History

[WARNING!!! THIS NOVEL IS RATED R, AS IT CONTAINS DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL AND VIOLENT CONDUCTS. READERS' DESCRIETION IS ADVICED!] Alex Norman studied history. And now, he's living in a broken one. Dropped into an ancient Rome that defies every textbook he ever read, Alex quickly learns his knowledge is useless. Spartacus fights in arenas decades after his death, Brutus rules an empire drenched in spectacle and blood, the Colosseum towers over the city a century too soon, nothing matches, and verything wants to kill him. But Alex has something the others don't: a mysterious system with a personality all its own; petty, punishing, and occasionally helpful when it suits its mood. With its reluctant guidance and his own stubborn refusal to die, Alex claws his way from the lowest pits of a gladiator ludus toward something greater. He finds unlikely brotherhood. He finds love in a woman carrying secrets heavier than his own. And he finds himself at the center of a rebellion that will reshape Rome itself. Except history isn't a straight line. It's a blade. And the deeper Alex cuts into this world, the more he realizes that some stories don't end the way they were written, some end in sand and silence, and some don't end at all. Sands of Fate: The Wrong Side of History is the first book in a series where Fate keeps getting it wrong, and the people it chooses keep getting it right, even when it costs them everything. — Description from novelcodex.org