![]() Worse, he is honor-bound to try to prove the man innocent-and the army wrong-by finding another culprit. Ruso, once again unwillingly pulled into the murder investigation, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the prime suspect. These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople, under the leadership of the mysterious Stag Man, are fomenting a rebellion against Roman control and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier. ![]() But the edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place the independent tribes of the North dwell near its borders. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia-a calmer place for a tired man. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. ![]()
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