Young woman finds adventure, love and treachery on Roman frontier.
Harper Torch
March 2005
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Featuring: Valeria; Arden; Galba
400 pages ISBN: 0060563729 EAN: 9780060563721 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the
movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal
politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic
culture.
For three centuries, the stone barrier we
know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the
unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands.
But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the
Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer
in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and
epic war. Valeria's new husband, Marcus, has supplanted
the brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba as commander
of the famed Petriana cavalry. Yet Galba insists on
escorting the bride–to–be on her journey to
the Wall. Is he submitting to duty? Or plotting revenge?
And what is the mysterious past of the handsome barbarian
chieftain Arden Caratacus, who springs from ambush and who
seems to know so much of hated Rome?
As sharp as
the edge of a spatha sword and as piercing as a Celtic
arrow, Hadrian's Wall evokes a lost world of Roman ideals
and barbaric romanticism.
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