The Western Roman Empire is falling apart. Civil war rages, Germanic tribes invade, and Emperor Honorius hides in Ravenna. Constantine III rebels from Britain, stripping it of troops to march into Gaul. With help from the Franks and Suevi, he drives back the Vandals and Alans but gives up land to his allies.In this third Yul novel, Yul, a young Saxon officer in a Roman cavalry unit of mostly German soldiers, struggles to prove himself as a leader. Promoted to legatus

The Roman Empire is coming apart at the seams, relying on German recruits and foederati to hold the empire together. The eastern and western empires are ruled by incompetent young men who allow their German warlords to rule for them, but imperial elites conspire against the generals. Yul the Younger is a Saxon boy negotiating life in the empire with strong ties to his family in Germania. His father, Yul the Elder, sends Yul to a monastery school to learn the ways of the empire, with the fa...