1. The Parthian
During the Third Servile War, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is captured with his men and sent to Italy as a slave. Their fate changes when they are freed by Spartacus, whose revolt against Rome is rapidly becoming a major military threat. In gratitude,…
2. Parthian Dawn
Set in Mesopotamia and the Parthian Empire in the first century BCE, after the defeat of Spartacus. The escape from Italy returns the story to the Arsacid Parthian world, a loose imperial system of kings, noble houses and regional armies stretching across Mesopotamia and Iran. Rome…
3. Parthian Vengeance
Set in the Parthian Empire in the mid-first century BCE, amid dynastic war and regional rivalry. Parthian kings depended on the support of powerful aristocratic families and regional rulers, making succession disputes especially dangerous. Civil war could mobilise armies across vast distances and leave frontier kingdoms…
4. Carrhae
Set in Mesopotamia in 53 BCE, during Crassus's invasion of Parthia and the Battle of Carrhae. In 53 BCE Marcus Licinius Crassus invaded Parthian territory seeking military glory and wealth. Near Carrhae his legions were outmanoeuvred by Surena's horse archers and armoured cavalry, producing one of…
5. Companions
Set in the eastern Mediterranean in the first century BCE, between the early Parthian adventures and the later dynastic wars, they called themselves Companions – those who escaped from Italy with Pacorus in the aftermath of Spartacus’ uprising, travelling across the Mediterranean to make their home…
6. Sons of the Citadel
Set in the eastern Mediterranean in the 40s BCE, during renewed Roman-Parthian conflict and the age of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, did you think the gods would leave you alone, Pacorus? Did you truly believe the Romans would forget the humiliation of Carrhae and not rest…
7. Usurper
After Mark Antony's failed Parthian campaign, Pacorus returns to Dura hoping that his daughter's marriage will provide a rare interval of peace. Instead, the wedding draws his family eastward at the moment when old enemies are settling scores and a new threat is emerging beyond the…
8. The Cursed Kingdom
Set in Armenia and the Parthian frontier in the late 30s BCE, as Mark Antony again presses east, mark Antony has returned to Parthia to wage war against the king of kings. But Parthia has a new hero, a man born of slaves who carries an…
10. The Slave King
A period of uneasy peace in Parthia is disrupted when Pacorus and Gallia are drawn toward a crisis on the empire’s eastern frontier. Pacorus has only a small force available, while larger armies and distant rulers pursue their own plans. The danger is intensified by the…
11. Lord of War
Pacorus and Gallia return to Dura hoping that peace will allow them to leave Parthia's wars behind. Relations between King of Kings Phraates and Octavian are unusually calm, the eastern frontier has stabilised and Pacorus turns his attention to irrigation, farming and the prosperity of his…
12. Wraiths
Pacorus and Gallia return to Dura after surviving their enemies in the north, but Gallia refuses to let the attacks on her husband, friends and kingdom go unanswered. With the Scythian Sisters available to act beyond the normal reach of royal diplomacy, she begins a campaign…
13. Sarmatian
Set in the northern Parthian frontier in the later first century BCE, during a major incursion from the steppe, war is a jealous lover who is reluctant to release me from her embrace. Pacorus, now retired from the politics of Parthia, embarks on a journey to…
14. Pacorus
Set in the Roman-Parthian frontier around 20 BCE, when Rome and Parthia negotiate the return of the standards lost at Carrhae, the Romans took my freedom, albeit briefly. But Parthia took my youth, my best years, my friends and my family. And now it wants me…
16. Conqueror
Set in the Parthian world in the later first century BCE, at the end of Pacorus's long military career, protect your family, defend the empire, honour the gods. This is the code you have lived by all your life, Pacorus. Everything you have undertaken has been…