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She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift. Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

In Nero's Rome, ambition is a dangerous thing... Agricola has won renown for his military exploits in Britannia. Now returned to Rome with his new family, he seeks to rise further—but life in the greatest city on earth proves more difficult than he expected. Roman politics are on a knife-edge—often literally. The Emperor Nero is unpredictable, the manner of his rule unstable.

Jarl Dragon Heart has taken to the seas. With his wolf warriors, he raids further afield than ever before as he seeks his destiny. He has to fight new enemies as well as treacherous former allies. The Norns weave their webs and the Vikings discover the Middle Sea and Africa before they find themselves at the court of Nikephoros 1, the Emperor of Byzantium. A vast moving novel filled with battles both at sea and on land as the Viking Wolf unleashes his pack on the world.

Warrior and combat medic, Titus Cervianus, must lead a legion and quell the uprisings in Egypt in a new Roman adventure from Simon Turney. Egypt. 25 BC. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. A former surgeon from the city of Ancyra, he's now a capsarius – a combat medic. Cervianus is a...

In the heart of a tempestuous sea, where the Atlantic roars with untamed fury, an ambitious Norse leader casts his fate into the unknown. When Leif Wolf Killer sets sail on a raid to lands shrouded in mystery, he seeks glory and treasure but soon finds himself caught in a web of nature's wrath and fierce Arab warriors who will stop at nothing to defend their waters. As violent storms rage and treacherous waters rise, the ancient legend of the Three Sisters surfaces in the form of a dragon-shaped rock, rising up from the depths and drawing Leif closer.

The story of the last two Housecarls from Harold Godwinson's army who, forced from England by the Normans, journey down the Russian rivers to join the Varangian Guard where they fight, once more the Normans from Italy. The two men have to fight not only barbarians and the Empire's enemies but treachery from within the complex world of Byzantine politics. Culminating in the battle which finally drove the Normans back to Italy, the historically accurate book paints a picture of the dying world of the Saxon warriors.