ABANDONED BY ROME, INVADED BY BARBARIANS
In the year 410 CE, news reaches the town of Calleva Atrebatum in southern Britannia that the last Roman administrators and soldiers have left the island, never to return. Worried townsfolk look to youthful auxiliary commander, Marcus, to organise their defence when reports reach them of a roving band of raiders. Marcus’s Roman centurion father has long since passed away and he is influenced by his Briton mother to adopt her family name, Pendragon, in a tactic to appeal to the locals for support. What follows is a tense defence of the walled town from determined Saxon raiders who have marched along the Roman road from the south coast in search of plunder.

Marcus is challenged to forge a defence force from locals and a handful of Roman legionary deserters, and by doing so establishes the foundations of a post-Roman plan for survival. Elsewhere, a Christian Bishop persuades a Gallic prince to come to Britannia and lay the foundations for a post-Roman kingdom. King Constantine meets Marcus at Calleva and together they set out to unite the tribes and bring stability to the fractured, traumatised island of Britannia.

Abandoned is book one in a thrilling series – A LIGHT IN THE DARK AGES – and is followed by Ambrosius: Last of the Romans; Uther’s Destiny; Arthur Dux Bellorum and the final part - Arthur Rex Brittonum. This series is an imagining, based on slender historical sources, that covers the years from 410 to 535 CE, a time of bitter infighting between tribes and against seaborne invaders. The series builds to the coming of Arthur, a Lord of War who leads the Briton tribes against aggressive colonists, the Angles and Saxons.

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