In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost.
Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans...
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1. The fort
2. Life at Uncle Awuila's
3. Cottia
4. The Lost Eagle
5. The Journey north
6. Staying with the Epidaii
7. Taking the Eagle
8. The hunt begins
9. Escape to the south
10. Home at last