Shadows of the Wall: A Dark Historical Fiction of Late Roman Britain (eBook)

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Rome is dying, and the silence at the world’s edge is hungry.

At the frozen limit of the Empire, the wind speaks with the voices of the dead.

Praepositus Aelius Corven is the last breath of a suffocating command. Stationed at Hadrian’s Wall, he oversees a starving garrison and a stone barrier that no longer holds back the night. The supplies have stopped coming. The patrols are vanishing. But it is the silence from the north that chills the blood—a calculated, watching silence that suggests the enemy is no longer afraid.

The Picti are not just raiding. They are evolving.

Strange omens drift over the parapets: ash that smells of bone, wolves that judge the living, and voices in the mist that mimic Roman sentries with terrifying precision. As the discipline of the Legion crumbles into paranoia, Aelius is dragged into a nightmare beyond the shield wall—a captive of the druid Mael, a man who intends to dismantle the Empire not with swords, but by rewriting the souls of its soldiers.

Haunted by the memory of his stolen daughters and bound by a duty that has lost its meaning, Aelius must navigate a landscape where reality thins and the old gods hunger. But the ultimate horror waiting in the northern wilds isn’t death. It is the discovery of what has been taken from him—and the realization that some things are not meant to be saved.

When the Wall falls, the only path left is into the dark.