The Saint’s Day Deaths / Murder and Mayhem on the Ancient RhineOctober A.D. 406: The windswept Rhine River near the Roman city of Mogontium (Fictionalized Mainz, Germany). The eastern shoreline is dotted with glowing campfires of three barbarian tribes—Vandal, Suebi, and Alan. They remainedquiet for months, gathering warrior strength, but the unseasonably cold weather forebodes a time when the river could freeze over and become a footpath for invading Gaul. Inside Mogontium, disaster strikes when a worker setting a Christian cross on a former temple to Jupiter is felled by a lightning strike. Superstitious onlookers are terrified by the god’s “revenge”. Vandal chief Gaisios scouts the city’s fortifications, then invades on December 31. He narrowly is thrownback, but courted for help by a treasonous pretorium official planning a break-away province of New Gothia At Ravenna, Emperor Honorius is disinterested in his remote Germanic province. In months to come, Governor Albanus, Treverius, his wife, Blandina, and Presbyter Modestus, struggle to ascertain why the ongoing murders of citizens named after martyred saints are occurring. Who might be next? How can the four protect potential victims that fear their lives will end in a similar martyrdom?
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blas...
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