Iron and Ashes

Rome, 68 AD. When civil war shatters the empire, centurion Lucius Corvinus refuses to march against his own people—and pays for it on a cross. Cut down half-dead, he learns his wife and son have been taken to Rome as hostages by the treacherous legate who condemned him. With an army of thirty thousand bearing down on the capital, Lucius must reach the city first—or lose everything he loves to the flames of ambition.