bBestselling, award-winning author Marc Alan Edelheit delivers this second action-packed fantasy epic in the Karus Saga.b pSurrounded by an army of Celts and facing certain destruction, the Ninth Imperial Legion, one of Rome's most powerful military formations, has been unexpectedly transported to the world of Tannis. The legion, now under the command of Camp Prefect Karus, finds itself lost in a strange land. Cut off from everything they have known, they find temporary shelter in the abandoned city of Carthum. pThey quickly learn an unholy army of orcs, goblins, trolls, and humans known as the Horde is on the march, sweeping across the face of Tannis like a dark tide, conquering one land at a time. No force upon this world has been able to withstand the armies of the enemy. Yet the Horde has never met the might of Rome, and Karus means to fight. pIn the dungeons under the palace, Amarra, last of the faithful, is found. Together they are visited by Jupiter himself and given a series of