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The Misplaced Legion

Book 1 of The Videssos Cycle series

As they faced one another in a duel of survival, the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus held the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest, and the Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a similar sword, bespelled by a rival Druid sorcerer. At the moment they touched, the two found themselves under a strange night sky where no stars were familiar and where Gaul and Rome were unknown. They were in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos—in a world where magic and dark sorcery would test their skill and courage as no Roman legion had ever been tested before.

Genre
fantasyscience fictionalternate historyancient romeancient world
Setting
ancient rome
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 323 pages

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