The Last Emperor’s Second Life #1016633

Constantinople, 1453.
The walls are broken. The Ottoman banners are rising. And Constantine XI, last Emperor of the Romans, dies with a sword in his hand as a thousand years of empire collapses around him.
Then he opens his eyes in 1282.
He is young again—reborn in the body of Constantine Palaiologos, son of Emperor Michael VIII, nearly two centuries before the fall of Constantinople.
This time, Rome still has armies. It still has gold. It still has provinces worth saving.
And Constantine remembers exactly how it all ends.
The Turks are only beginning their rise in Anatolia. The Serbs circle the Balkans. Venice and Genoa fight over the wealth of the Mediterranean. The Latin powers still dream of reclaiming Constantinople. Inside the Empire itself, ambitious nobles, scheming churchmen, and old dynasties wait for weakness.
Constantine has no intention of giving them any.
Armed with the memories of an emperor who already watched his civilization die once, he begins rebuilding the army, breaking the power of rebellious nobles, restoring imperial authority, and preparing Rome for wars its enemies do not yet know are coming.
But changing history demands more than knowledge.
It demands blood.
And if Constantine must become a harder ruler than the man he was in his first life, so be it.
He has already watched Rome fall once.
There will not be a second time.
The Last Emperor’s Second Life is Book One of Reborn to Restore Rome, an epic alternate-history series of reincarnation, empire building, military campaigns, political intrigue, and the return of the Eastern Roman Empire.