Triumph in Dust

by Ian Ross Book 6 in the Twilight of Empire series.

First published 2019

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AD 336. Aurelius Castus has withdrawn from the struggles that carried him across the Roman world, but retirement ends when he is summoned to the eastern frontier. Constantine’s long reign is nearing its close and renewed confrontation with the Sasanian Empire threatens Mesopotamia and Syria, forcing Castus back into command in a region shaped by desert warfare, fortified cities and competing imperial ambitions.

The final novel broadens the series beyond Constantine’s civil wars to the strategic problem that will outlive him: Rome’s rivalry with Persia. Castus faces one last campaign while the emperor prepares for war and the succession remains unsettled. Ross closes the sequence by contrasting public triumph with the accumulated cost of decades of service, returning to questions of duty, loyalty and survival that have followed Castus since his first posting on the edge of Britain.