We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known
only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the
chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone
by England's greatest king.
But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the
despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the
choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last
stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east.
Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the
warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed
blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and
Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for
law and honor.
With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has
forgotten: the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of
which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword
continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone As the great night
of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to
build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which
one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city...known as
Camelot.
