1. Eagle and the Flame
Britannia, AD 367. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus is scouting north of Hadrian’s Wall when he finds smoke, abandoned posts and a province collapsing into disorder. Raiders have broken through the frontier, soldiers are missing and the word Valentia spreads without clear explanation. Victorinus is a damaged officer…
2. Wolf and the Crown
Hadrian’s Wall, AD 382. After years of relative peace, Tribune Sixtus Victorinus has settled into service under Flavius Maximus while his sons grow towards adulthood. Warning signs from the north suggest that the frontier is again becoming unstable. The immediate threat from Caledonian tribes conceals a…
3. Tribune and the Sword
Britain and Gaul, AD 383. Flavius Maximus has been declared emperor in Britain and crossed into Gaul, where the western emperor Gratian is dead. The civil war has divided officers, commands and friendships that once appeared secure. Victorinus and Felicius are drawn into opposing loyalties as…
4. Barbarian and the Throne
Constantinople, AD 388. Videricus, heir to the Greuthungi, is surviving by theft when he encounters Stilicho, a rising Roman officer. Drawn into the army, Videricus must learn Roman discipline without abandoning the loyalties and identity of his own people. As Theodosius prepares for another imperial civil…