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The Centurions
Book 1 in the Centurions series.
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Correus and Flavius are half-brothers, sons of the same Roman general but separated by birth and expectation. Correus, the son of an enslaved German woman, has the instinct and physical confidence of a soldier yet no automatic claim to the rank he desires. Flavius is legally legitimate and has always expected to inherit military standing, but must struggle to match the competence that comes naturally to his brother.
Both enter the centuriate during Vespasian’s reign and are sent to the German frontier, where combat places their rivalry inside a larger conflict between Rome and the peoples beyond its borders. Correus’s relationship with the German woman Freita and Flavius’s experience of capture and torture test assumptions about civilisation, status and loyalty. The opening volume establishes the House of Appius Julianus as a family whose advancement depends on two brothers learning to trust the qualities each was raised to resent in the other.
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