Wallace Breem

In the year AD 406 Rome is on the defensive and a single Roman legion stands guard on the Rhine frontier. Maximus, the legion’s commander, is urged to proclaim himself emperor but, bound by an oath of duty, he refuses. Then fate intervenes…

In Rome, Augustus is ill and rumour and conspiracy abound. When a legate is murdered and his daughter kidnapped off the North African coast, a disgraced (and expendable) centurion is sent on a mission to recover the girl. Too late he finds he has been betrayed…