When Marcus Corvinus is summoned by the Empress Livia he fears the worst. But Livia has a favor to ask—Marcus must investigate the death of her grandson, Germanicus, which will soon embroil Marcus in a multi-stranded web of betrayal and deceit.
For all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone on the barren island of Resolution in the Sout...