The Sword and the Throne - signed, lined & dated Bantam Press once Most High Academe and

once Most High Academe and now a puppet ruler in New Sanctaphrax

With no recollection of either its name or past

Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows

has been hired to discover Rose's fate

Rose Janko has been missing for seven years

The Sword and the Throne - signed, lined & dated Bantam Press once Most High Academe andAD 69. Aulus Caecina Severus has thrown in his lot with the hedonistic Vitellius and prepares his legions for a gruelling march over the Alps. Driven by the desire to repay the treachery of his former patron, the Emperor Galba, and to keep his rival Valens in check, Severus leads his army against barbarian rebellions and against the mountains themselves in his race to reach Italy first. With the vast Po valley almost in sight, news reaches the army