Perfect for fans of action-adventure and historical
fiction — including novels by such authors as Bernard Cornwell, Steve
Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove — this stunning work of alternate history imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has not fallen and
the North American continent has just been discovered. In the year 1218
AD, transported by Norse longboats, a Roman legion crosses the great
ocean, enters an endless wilderness, and faces a cataclysmic clash of
worlds, cultures, and warriors.
Ever hungry for land and gold, the Emperor has sent Praetor Gaius Marcellinus and the
33rd Roman Legion into the newly discovered lands of North America.
Marcellinus and his men expect easy victory over the native inhabitants, but on the shores of a vast river the Legion clashes with a unique
civilization armed with weapons and strategies no Roman has ever
imagined.
Forced to watch his vaunted force massacred by a
surprisingly tenacious enemy, Marcellinus is spared by his captors and
kept alive for his military knowledge. As he recovers and learns more
about these proud people, he can’t help but be drawn into their society, forming an uneasy friendship with the denizens of the city-state of
Cahokia. But threats — both Roman and Native — promise to assail his
newfound kin, and Marcellinus will struggle to keep the peace while the
rest of the continent surges toward certain conflict.
