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He needs Aurima's help to succeed - but after promising months ago to win the support of her chieftain father, a brutal enemy of Rome, she still hasn't returned. Stunned by treason in his family, he sees one hope of earning back his honor: to recover a lost legion's sacred Eagle captured by rebels. Far from the intrigues of Caligula's Rome, the legion fortress of Carnuntum stands alone against the forested wilderness across the Danube River.Įx-Army tribune Marcus Carinna waits nearby for his beloved, the Germanic priestess Aurima. Treachery amid the dark menace and magic of the German wilderness. |