Christine Feddersen-Manfredi Orden de los libros (cronológico)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour, the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus, begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There, they will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the 'lost legion'.

Anno Domini 476. El Imperio romano está llegando a su fin. Dividido en dos partes y devastado por las invasiones de los bárbaros, son ya pocos los territorios donde se mantiene el dominio de aquel Estado que gobernó el mundo durante tantos siglos. Rómulo Augusto, con trece años, es el emperador de Occidente tras haber sobrevivido a la aniquilación de su familia. El general germánico Wulfila lo hace prisionero y lo lleva a la isla de Capri junto con su preceptor Ambrosino. Sin embargo, no todos se han rendido a las fuerzas bárbaras: un grupo de valientes soldados leales a Roma le rescatan e inician un viaje a través de toda Europa, huyendo de sus enemigos, hasta llegar a los confines del imperio, al territorio de los druidas, Britania, donde encontrarán un destino inesperado