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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luigi A Kohli (@luigiakauthor) Aletheia is a Roman biblical historical fiction 40 years in the making,
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A believer in the power of dreams to change the world.
Fiction is only fiction until it is not.
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Aletheia blends prophecy, betrayal, love and a thirst for power at the height of Imperial Rome into a tale of destiny. As hidden forces shape the fate of a rising empire, unlikely heroes emerge — bound by one man’s vision. No matter the vengeance or the course of personal ambition, there is no escaping the truth. A truth that will shape the history of the known world.
As Imperial Rome forges its empire upon the ashes of war, its provinces feverish with religion, ambition and a thirst for power compete in the shadows without conscience.
Save for one.
An adopted Jew of a long dead son of Rome who is playing a dangerous game. Driven by a vision he is certain is the future if he does not act, he is forced to make an unlikely alliance. An alliance that is fated to bring unwelcome attention.
Not all those seeking prominence in Rome are men.
At great personal cost, a provincial governor and his unwitting sons will be caught in the middle. Cassius will choose for vengeance, the ripples of his actions destined to echo across time. His brother Justus will seek the safety of obscurity. Their only allies are Caeso, a haruspex and long-time friend of their father, and Hector, a forgotten hero of the Tenth Legion. And the only clues in their search for the truth, and possibly their only hope for salvation?
The discovery of a secret that could start a war…
Justus Pilate is exiled in Parthia, his once favoured family all but destroyed by forces in the shadows of Imperial Rome. To say nothing of the love of his life who died a hero’s death. Or so he thought.
And the keys to his freedom? They are a curse he dare not use.
Until, one day, a message comes that forces his hand. Justus’s brother Cassius lives! However, he soon discovers Cassius is not the man he once was. His path has turned to blind vengeance, his rage a winnowing fan at the embers of a new faith. A faith destined to cover the world, but not without bloodshed. The haruspex has seen it. Save Cassius does not believe in destiny, much less that he has a role to play in a much bigger game than he realises…
In an empire on the precipice of greatness, the agents of the Way of Strangers trade secrets for coin. They serve nobody save those who have the most to lose! Yet for all their dark skills as the eyes and ears of the shadows, they are blind and fools.
For what profit does one secret make?
It is an irony Ostorius plans to exploit. A gamble for a prize bigger than they can imagine. However, despite the friendship of a powerful ally, he discovers dominion is not so easily won, the risk more than he bargained for. Possibly unto the mortar of Rome itself.
Even emperors cannot fight ghosts.
Meanwhile, as Rome presses ever more brutally against his people, Judah Ben-Hur slips away from Misenum to go in search of a rebel — a key to Judea and her insurgent armies. Only it will not be the key to peace that Judah expects, the turning in the lock bringing him back to another whose fate was bound to his own long ago.
A Grey Man who once had a name…
Beneath the grandeur and spectacle of Imperial Rome lies a hidden empire — not one built of stone, but of silence, secrets, and visions too dangerous to speak aloud. Aletheia opens a doorway into that unseen world, where shadows move faster than soldiers and destinies are written not in scrolls, but in sacrifice. This is not the Rome of conquest and ceremony, but of fevered ambition, sacred warnings, and uneasy alliances. In these pages, we follow those burdened not by title, but by what they know — or fear they’ve seen. It’s a tale of conviction clashing with survival, of moral ground eroding beneath every step. And through it all, the question lingers: what would you risk to change the course of history, if you knew what was coming — and no one would believe you?
Inspired by the scale and intensity of the Ben-Hur saga, Aletheia reimagines the historical epic as something darker, more intimate, and fiercely human. Religion, empire, and identity twist together in the margins of official history — and it is in those margins where truth begins to emerge. This is a story not of chosen heroes, but of those pushed into consequence: sons and soldiers, seers and survivors. It is about the invisible weight of legacy, the cost of silence, and the haunting pull of what might have been. Within its layered world, loyalty is tested, faith is weaponized, and the line between vision and madness is never quite clear. For readers drawn to stories that unearth the soul beneath the empire, and the echoes of personal choices through time — Aletheia offers a path both timeless and timely.
A storyteller at heart and a strategist by trade, Luigi A. Kohli explores the quiet tensions that shape history — the unseen moments where power, belief, and consequence collide. With Aletheia, he brings decades of lived experience to the page, blending immersive fiction with timeless questions. What begins as a story may yet become something far more lasting.
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