Shadows Over Eboracum (eBook)

AD 313. Eboracum, Roman York, is a fortress city built to withstand armies. Yet the danger has already entered through its records.

Marcus and Lucia arrive carrying proof that Aelia is alive. Her transfer papers reached the city before her, describing choices she never made and preparing a place she never requested.

Gaius Lupercus oversees the new system. Calm, capable and persuasive, he restores soldiers' pay, repairs dangerous roads and keeps grain moving through a hungry city. In return, he asks Eboracum to accept a second authority, one that can alter an oath, divide a household and decide what happened before any witness is heard.

As soldiers lose their quarters, families lose bread and missing women become unnamed entries, Marcus follows reports that travel faster than the people they describe. Lucia builds a network among households, kitchens, clerks and relief rooms. Aelia refuses to remain a line in someone else's account.

To resist the hidden law, Eboracum must ensure that every person can answer before an official seal closes their life.

But the surviving records point south.

Towards Rome.

A gripping Roman conspiracy thriller about identity, obedience and the courage to make power answerable. Book Two of the Obscura Lex series.