Given the choice of an almost certain death in the arena or a chance of life in the Legions, Marcellus Novanus Rufio gets drafted into the Legio VI Victrix and is taken to Britannia to help rebuild Hadrian's Wall, and push back the hostile Northern Tribes Along the way he is dragged into murder and intrigue by a Frumentarius, an intelligence officer under direct orders from the Emperor, to deliver the only thing that will stop the tribes from banding together in a new and devastating uprising.

Book two of the Valknut Mask The Valknut or death- knot is said to symbolize the great God Odin's power to lay bonds on the minds of mortal men leaving them helpless in battle. It is said that he could also banish the tensions of fear and strain, by bestowing gifts of madness, intoxication and inspiration. A young novice at a remote monastery on the Northumbrian coast is captured by a group of Norse raiders and taken to Gotland, where he becomes slave to a blacksmith. Some years later his is ship wrecked on one of the many small islands off the coast of Svealand, and discovers an ancient...