Rome has a new emperor; a strong emperor.
With just a slave familiar with the eas.
One of the frumentarii, the emperor\'s military agents, has gone missing in Arabia, and with him has gone a list of the service\'s personnel.
But with civil war raging all across the East, problems abound.
Septimius Severus, a lion of the battlefield, now moves east to face the usurper Pescennius Niger, contesting with a clever opponent with the ultimate prize in the balance: the throne of Rome.
Rome has a new emperor; a strong emperor