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But a spy takes him out of there to act as interpreter and clerk and when he returns from his secondment, Demalion finds he’s been posted to the Twelfth, the unluckiest legion in Rome’s entire army.

Rome is burning. Only one man can save it.

Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the Roman Legions, is ordered to stop the impending cataclysm. He knows that if he does not, his life - and those of thousands of others - are in terrible danger.

DREAMING THE EAGLE: In AD 60, the woman known as the Boudica, whose name meant ‘Bringer of Victory’, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome.

DREAMING THE BULL begins in AD 47: Aulus Plautius has left Britannia and the new governor, Publius Scapula is due to arrive. In the space between, Boudica and Caradoc mount a savage resistance against the leaderless western armies of Rome.

DREAMING THE HOUND: AD 57: Caradoc is lost for ever, betrayed to Rome and exiled in Gaul, leaving Boudica bereft, to lead the tribes of the west in an increasingly bloody resistance against Roman occupation.

DREAMING THE SERPENT SPEAR: AD 60: The flame of rebellion that has been smouldering for twenty years of Roman occupation has flared into a conflagration that will consume the land and all who live in it. There is no going back.

The date is set,

Time is running out.
Ancient Wisdom predicts the end of the world with uncanny precision.

But it also provides the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull.

This is a fast-paced thriller, weaving contemporary and Elizabethan threads.

Medics have a way of organising cases. The first one you see is: ‘in my experience’. Two becomes ‘case after case’.

Three men are dead, three colleagues with a shared past, a past also shared by the one person Kellen Stewart would trust with her life: pathologist Lee Adams. Suspect number one.

Dr Nina Crawford of the University of Glasgow’s Veterinary College - driven, fanatically dedicated, a survivor - is one of the most respected equine surgeons in the country.

But now she seems to be losing her grip, on her operating theatre, on her skills - and on her mind.

Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend.

Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back.