The Roman Empire was built at the expense of a thousand extinguished rivals, and during the reign of Domitian its long-forgotten enemies join together to enact a terrible curse. The dead began to walk, creating a plague of undead that sweeps across the Empire. And even the elite Roman forces, bolstered by war elephants, cannot hold them back. The only hope of stopping the lifeless monsters is a disparate group of misfits and rogues led by the most ruthless Senator in Rome.
The Roman Empire was built at the expense of a thousand extinguished rivals, and during the reign of Domitian its long-forgotten enemies join together...
Stuart Holmes is a travel blogger from Canada on his way to Antarctica. When his ship gets trapped in ice and buried by a mysterious fog, he and several others hike to a nearby island to radio for help. They never make it. Instead the four of them flee the murderous ice and descend into a deep cave where they discover an entire new world, replete with strange statutes, abandoned cities, man-eating plants, giant terrestrial birds, foreboding monoliths, and brutal mega-fauna long since extinct on the surface of the Earth. Beneath the Mantle is a fast-paced tale of subterranean worlds, hidden...
Stuart Holmes is a travel blogger from Canada on his way to Antarctica. When his ship gets trapped in ice and buried by a mysterious fog, he and sever...