Gibbon's decline and fall
A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry  presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster. Taking the girl's case is Carolyn Crespin, a former attorney, who left her job for a quiet family life. Now she must call upon five friends from college, who took a vow to always stand together. But their success might depend on the assistance of Sophy, the enigmatic sixth friend, whom they all believed dead.From the Paperback edition.
Fundamentalism, Fiction, Science Fiction, Rome, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical
Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is known for feminist science fiction, often with an ecofeminist slant. -Wikipedia

She also wrote murder mysteries under the pen names of [B.J. Oliphant][1] and [A. J. Orde][2], and a horror novel under [E.E. Horlak][3]


  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2724905A/B.J._Oliphant
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL768769A/A._J._Orde
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2787259A/E.E._Horlak