Phyllis Smith’s debut novel, I AM LIVIA (Lake Union – May 2014), is a #1 Kindle bestseller! The book, chronicling the epic romance between Livia and Caesar Augustus, is “a wonderful journey to ancient Rome that provides amazing, thoughtful insight into one of its most influential and unconventional citizens.” –Historical Novels Review. “Caesar Augustus becomes a flesh and blood man, brilliant, ambitious, arrogant, and yet vulnerable.”—Susan Coventry, author of The Queen’s Daughter