The Empty Fort: A Novel of Roman Britain (What Survives Book 1)

The finest fighting force in the world marched north. Not a single man came back.AD 121. Five thousand disciplined, battle-hardened soldiers of Rome leave York for the northern frontier and vanish out of history — a mystery that has fed nineteen centuries of speculation and has never once been answered.No battle was ever recorded. No burial ground has ever been found. No account survives from anyone who was there.All we know is that a fort was left standing empty, its gates chocked open from the inside — and a set of orders that were entirely lawful when they were written.Whatever happened to the Ninth, somebody took enormous care to make certain it would never be told. Secrets hidden so the truth would stay buried forever.They very nearly managed it.THE EMPTY FORT — Book One of the What Survives trilogy