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    "description": "\"Perhaps not since the early 1970s, with Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills, have the Roman Empire and the Arthurian legends been intertwined as much skill and authenticity.\"  -Publishers Weekly\n\nThe legions have departed. The last vestiges of Roman authority are gone and a thriving colony that has lasted for more than four hondred years is poised on the brink of destruction.\n\nPublius Varrus and Caius Brittanicus are two Romans who choose to stay, choose to fight for their adopted land. They will build a hill-top fort that will withstand the onslaughts of the barbarians who seek to plunder Britain's wealth.\n\nOut of their struggles a new Britain and a new people will emerge - Britons who are a carefully crafted alloy, a tempered fusion of Roman and Celtic greatness...\n\nAnd one thing more...\n\nThese two men are great-grandfathers to the man known as Arthur, King of the Britons, and their actions will help shape a nation...and forge the sword known as Excalibur.\n\n\"I love the book. It was an extraordinary story, totally original, and clearly there is a lot  more excitement to come in the upcoming volumes.\" - Rosamunde Pilcher on The Skystone",
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