Nicole Nixon

Historical fiction author

About

Nicole Nixon had an international upbringing, spending much of her childhood in Bermuda. She loved storytelling from a young age, and before she could write, she spent hours on the phone with her aunt telling fictitious stories about what her cat did when she was away. When she was twelve, she started her first novel and she’s been writing ever since.

She studied data science and history at Northwestern University and feels that the two disciplines are not so different; both involve digging through archives to find the stories that need telling. At Northwestern, she won a grant to research and write her first historical fiction novel, and it was during that project that she found her passion for telling the stories of women lost to history. She is represented by Ritu Anand of D4EO Literary.

Currently, Nicole works as a data analyst in Chicago. In addition to reading and writing, she loves theatre, going to board game cafes, and traveling.

Novels

Noble and Notorious

Currently on submission with editors

In the turbulent final century of the ancient Roman Republic, the era when Julius Caesar led his armies and Cleopatra schemed for power, Clodia Metelli is born with a fire raging inside her. She wants to follow her brothers down the path of political power, but she can’t. She wants to save her young sister from succumbing to her failing body – but she can’t. Her father sees her grief as weakness and makes 8-year-old Clodia a deal: he’ll give her a man’s education only if she never mentions her sister again. Clodia accepts. By the time she’s forced into marriage at age sixteen, she’s as cold and manipulative as her father – almost. Except she loves her youngest brother, with his wild hair and even wilder ideas. And her heart skips a beat when she meets her maid’s blue eyes.
 
When her brother’s fiery temper lands him in political hot water, he and Clodia form a covert alliance. Their partnership sustains them through conspiracies and scandals that catapult them to the top of Rome’s social circles. Behind her husband’s back, Clodia and her maid start an affair that she can’t admit is love.
 
Then Clodia has a daughter who looks exactly like the sister she lost. And her brother plunges them into a scandal from which she cannot save him. Furious at her brother and overwhelmed with grief she’d never let herself feel, Clodia travels a dark path to the most dangerous parts of Rome and the men who lurk there and must decide whether power and influence are worth their steep price.
Short Stories

Fear – 101 Words

 

Love – 101 Words

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