Leonides Tzimiskes served in the Imperial Legions for twenty years and riding into the sunset to collect his reward, a frontier villa and farm.

Then, in the town of Nikaia a young woman claiming to be a lost daughter of an Amazon challenged him to solve a local problem.

Now Leonides must choose between continuing to a life of ease that comes with a villa and rescuing people who might not want it.

And he must choose knowing that if he chooses the latter he might not live to collect the former.