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The Farthest Shield
The lost legion of Carrhae marched east into history. One man marched all the way to China.
Historical fiction from the ancient world
The soldiers and makers history leaves out of the record.
I'm a writer and a tinkerer. I write standalone novels about the overlooked corners of ancient history — the people and turns of fortune that quietly shaped the world we live in, and that most histories hurry past. Between books, I keep a notebook about the things I build.
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The Farthest Shield
The lost legion of Carrhae marched east into history. One man marched all the way to China.
A half-Insubric legionary survives Carrhae and is sold east across the steppe — a forty-year march toward the Han frontier, carrying a shield past the edge of the known world, into the service of warlords and the gaze of a Han general.
The shield cycle
Three standalone novels
Not a series — a set that rhymes. Each stands alone, bound by a single motif: the shield, and the people the record forgets.
From the notebook