A Dragon among the Eagles: A Novel of the Roman Empire (Eagles and Dragons Book 0)

In the year 197, Emperor Septimius Severus leads a vast army of Rome against the Parthian Empire, and among its thirty-three legions marches a young officer named Lucius Metellus Anguis. He comes from an old equestrian family, and his conservative father wants him to seek a place in the Senate rather than on the battlefield. Lucius is determined to win back his family's honour through soldiering. As the legions push through Mesopotamia toward the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon, he faces cruelty and suffering that test his ideals and his faith. The question is whether he can come through the campaign unchanged, and whether the gods favour the bold. This prequel belongs to a historical fantasy series that mixes military adventure, romance and the supernatural.