Where The Panther Kneels

In the shadow of Rome's great arena, a nameless orphan has survived seventeen years of darkness, known only as Corvus, raven-boy, nobody. Raised in the subterranean pens of the Colosseum, he carries nothing of value except a single worn wooden whistle the only object left with him when he was abandoned as an infant at the arena's eastern gate. When a corrupt nobleman frames him for theft and throws him to the most feared beast in the arena, an ancient black panther named Umbra, what happens...