A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his new responsibilities as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, and by the continuing search for a new partner, he turns her away. Immediately he regrets it. Read More...

Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has hit upon the perfect plan - offering his services to Vespasian and Titus in conducting the 'great Census' of AD 73 as a tax collector with draconian powers. If he does well, his fee will finally allow him to join the middle ranks and wed long-suffering companion Helena Justina. Meanwhile, Falco is needed to trace a relative who has eloped, and has a crazy plan for finding an extinct herb. Read More...

The epic of Theseus, the boy-king of Eleusis, ritually preordained to die after one year of marriage to the sacred Queen, but who defies the God's decree and claims his inheritance - the throne of Athens. Read More...

Bard and warrior, son of an Irish priestess and a travelling Roman, Lugh mac Romain is reared in the household of Maeve, a bloodthirsty warrior-queen of Connaught. When he kills her king in a fight, he must flee - pursued by her curses. Years later, Lugh tells his story... Read More...

At the main gates of the Divine Temple of Horus, a crowd gathers to celebrate the triumphant return of Hatusu. Aided by her lover, Senenmur, Hatusu is determined that all Egypt will accept her as the first pharaoh-Queen but it is an acceptance that lies in the laps of the gods whose wishes the priests must interpret. Only one man Amerotke, a respected judge, can be trusted to find the truth among the intrigue surrounding the deaths. Read More...

Cromwell's secretary, John Milton is shipwrecked and forced to wander through the American wilderness with a young companion, Goosequill, who assists him in his blindness. He encounters the native Indians and must learn to live beside them. But even he cannot foresee the climax of his epic journey in the new land. Read More...