Lucius Falerius is dead, and Rome in its entirety mourns the passing of
its most powerful senator. It falls to his son Marcellus to carry out
his father's legacy and restore the rights promised to the defeated
Sicilian slaves, yet there are those who will not see the honour of Rome
compromised and the slaves assuaged. On the Roman border provinces there
is trouble, and the legions move north to neutralise the threat posed by
the Celts. The confederation of Celtic tribes is united under one
Chieftain, the formidable and unpredictable Brennos, yet there is a plot
to see him dead and the confederation broken. For Brennos, the treachery
comes from within his own family, for which he will exact a brutal and
bloody revenge.