Nick Boulton

Derbyshire Police Detective DC Ben Cooper is on assignment to the Rural Crime Squad to investigate wildlife crime. On the wild Peak District moorlands, he steps into the middle of a conflict that has been raging for years over one of the most prized landscapes in the National Park. Many lives are at stake. And, in this battle, not all the victims are human.

A.D. 255. The Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority challenged along every border. One man is sent to marshall the defences - a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.