It is the turn of the fifth century. Rome is bigger than ever, but only a shadow of what it once was; and two indolent youths hold the Throne of the Caesars. Smelling weakness and sensing opportunity, a swarm of barbarians pour across the frozen Rhine.
Severus is a proud young soldier of Rome’s Sixth Legion; but when he defies orders so that others might be saved, he finds himself disgraced and facing military justice. But his general sees something else in Severus, and offers him a place in the elite Schola Palitina. Severus accepts, not only out of necessity, but out of true patriotism; but he does not know that this new destiny will bring him from the icy moors of Britannia to the blue Mediterranean of Hispania and Gaul; from the foothills of the Alps to the passes of the Pyrenees. For the man he has sworn his sword to protect will become the usurper, Constantine III. He will become both the hope and the doom of the mighty Roman Empire.
Meticulously researched, but not afraid to challenge convention, Usurper explores one of the major causes of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It tells the widely-unknown story of ancient Britain’s attempt to save Rome, and the heroic struggles of forgotten men who risked all to prevent the cataclysm that changed the world forever.
Severus is a proud young soldier of Rome’s Sixth Legion; but when he defies orders so that others might be saved, he finds himself disgraced and facing military justice. But his general sees something else in Severus, and offers him a place in the elite Schola Palitina. Severus accepts, not only out of necessity, but out of true patriotism; but he does not know that this new destiny will bring him from the icy moors of Britannia to the blue Mediterranean of Hispania and Gaul; from the foothills of the Alps to the passes of the Pyrenees. For the man he has sworn his sword to protect will become the usurper, Constantine III. He will become both the hope and the doom of the mighty Roman Empire.
Meticulously researched, but not afraid to challenge convention, Usurper explores one of the major causes of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It tells the widely-unknown story of ancient Britain’s attempt to save Rome, and the heroic struggles of forgotten men who risked all to prevent the cataclysm that changed the world forever.
