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A new century dawns, and Rome's frontiers are again in turmoil. The Year is A.D. 105. The Emperor Trajan is calling in troops from around the empire to secure Dacia's rich mines of iron, copper, and gold. Britannia's forts are left under strength and the north is once more in flames as the tribesmen sense weakness in Rome's armies. The Ninth Legion, based at Eboracvm, must once more bear the brunt of the rebellion when, as the ageing Cethan La...

The Romans have settled into Britain. They continue to build forts and subdue the indigenous tribes. The lives of Cethen, Elena, and Roman Gaius, with their now-adult children play out around their fateful meeting in Roman York. After spoiled, cocky Marcus returns there, he finds himself in terrible danger, Rhun and Coira are caught between the land of their birth and the way of life they've come to know. Filled with action, The Fortress conti...

On the continent, the Empire is racked with strife. General Magnus Maximus set out from Britain five years past, taking the legions with him. He has now paid the penalty for his ambitions. That army can no longer return, for it is desperately needed by Rome to fight her own battles. Left to defend herself, Britain now relies on the remnants of the Roman field force: mobile auxiliary troops that rush from pillar to post, meeting every threat wh...

It is A.D. 78, and Governor Gnaeus Agricola has arrived in Britannia to find that the Brigantes are again in rebellion, this time, the tribes are united with those further north-in the land that will one day be known as Scotland. Agricola is determined to finish a conquest begun only seven years before by. He will lead his armies relentlessly northward, leaving a trail of destruction marked by Roman forts and the web of roads that connect them...

It is A.D. 71, and Northern Britain is in turmoil. The tribes of Brigantia have chosen to follow the fortunes of the ageing king Venutius, rather than his one time consort, Cartimandua. Rome will no longer tolerate the king's constant warring, but is also unwilling to restore 'Catey' to her throne. Petilius Cerialis, Britannia's governor, has ordered the building of a fortress where two rivers meet in the underbelly of Venutius's kingdom: a pl...

A new century dawns, and Rome's frontiers are again in turmoil. The year is A.D. 105. The emperor Trajan is calling in troops from around the empire to secure Dacia's rich mines of iron, copper and gold. Britannia's forts are left under strength and the north is once more in flames as the tribesmen sense weakness in Rome's armies. The Ninth Legion, based at Eboracvm, must once more bear the brunt of the rebellion when, as the ageing Cethen Lam...

It is a cold morning in AD 71: a small galley clumsily docks at the Place of the Yews in Brigantia, Northern Britain. Gaius Sabinius Trebonius has arrived at the confluence of what will become known as the Ouse and the Fosse to survey the site for a new Ninth Legion fortress. Cethen Lamh-fada is reluctantly hosting the Briganti king, Venutius, along with a small force of warriors and a bard. Unaware, Gaius goes about assessing and laying out t...

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Across Canada people whine and snivel about their politicians, but never do anything about it. Why not? Because they can't so why even try. After all, how do you get a special interest group going, when you're actually in the majority? How do you get the moral message across to the elected, if that message costs votes? How do you fight apathy, when so many people, particularly the younger ones, seem too busy to care? The answer? You've gotta h...

The Sound of Silence echoes with a voice of its own, for silence is a force unto itself. Its voice can be clearly heard in the repercussions that result from remaining silent-consequences that will spread as surely as ripples on a pond. This echo is theaftermath. Its origin is found in those who chose to remain silent when faced by that which is wrong, for when corruption and evil are ignored, other victims will follow as night follows day. Th...

Dave Lockwood is an accountant. He's also just turned sixty and he's feeling old-mainly in body, rather than mind. And then there's Irene Blanchard, his office manager. She's about twenty years younger than Dave, which is about the age his mind seems to think he is, as it valiantly labours to adjust to a 'maturing' bod. Which is why, one evening as he escorts Irene down to the parking lot below one of Edmonton's downtown sky scrapers he unwise...

This book completely rewrites the history of the origins of the Dardanelles Campaign and Winston Churchill's role in it, adding a new perspective to the military and political history of World War I.