The saga continues as Governor Gnaeus Agricola begins his unprecedented six-year term as governor, with orders to quell Britain once and for all. Caught up in the continuing rebellion, Cethen Lamh-fada is forced northward as the Brigantes ally with old enemies in a mutual cause. His family's fate grows even more entwined with that of Gaius Sabinius, now legate of the Ninth Legion, in a path littered with ironic twists of fortune. Laced with dark humour and pragmatic romance, the book highlights the never-ending paradoxes of life's choices, many of them strikingly familiar.