`Brutal, audacious, and fast-paced` - Anthony Riches, author of bestselling Empire series

`Every page is drenched with the soldier`s experience` - Giles Kristian

Former soldier Geraint Jones delivers a visceral historical fiction epic that captures the essence of the men fighting for the blood-stained legions on the fringes of the Roman Empire. In the wake of a brutal massacre, the battle-hardened legionary Felix is taken as a slave to a traitorous Roman`s German army: a force hellbent on tearing apart the Empire. As legion after legion falls, it`s up to Felix and his shackled comrades to escape captivity and starvation, and to lead the defence of a lone fort against an insurgent force that has destroyed all in its path.

Because if their last stand fails then Rome itself could be next...