Brother at Arms

AD 64

Freed from the games, champion gladiator Leonidas faces the corruption and challenge of Ancient Rome with Cassia, a scribe, at his side.

Leonidas swears he sees his deceased friend, the gladiator called Xerxes, alive and well in Rome. But it is the festival of Lemuria, when malevolent spirits need to be appeased, so the man might be a ghost, following Leonidas for reasons of its own.

As Leonidas struggles to discover the truth about the apparition, he uncovers details of Xerxes's past th...