Legionary

In 376 AD, Goths gather along the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire, armed and driven by desperation. Emperor Valens hurries his legions into position to hold them back. He does not yet know that the tribes are fleeing something far worse: the Huns.

The army needs every man who can carry a spear. Pavo, a slave and an orphan, is pressed into service with the border legions and sent to the front line. Among the soldiers he finds the closest thing to family he has known, a thousand brothers in arms.

The war will take them from him one at a time. Pavo has to grow into a soldier fast, or he will die in the first campaigns, and the empire's defence may fail with him.

This is military historical fiction set in the late Roman East. Expect large battles, blood and graphic violence, with the story kept close to a young recruit's view of the fighting.