Empire's Edge
Dai PryceTime Travel Adventure in Roman occupied Wales
Having barely escaped from the ramparts of thirteenth century Flint Castle, Megan, and Hugh are officially a pair of time travelers.
Megan is looking forward to seeing her grandmother again but is dismayed to discover that the modern city of Chester is called Deva Victrix and is a fortress containing the Roman 20th Legion.
When Hugh is hauled off to gladiator school and Megan ends up slaving away in a tavern close to a local brothel, she wonders if it hasn't been a case of jumping out of the medieval frying pan and into the Roman fire.
As the weeks tick by, she resigns herself to a life of servitude in Roman Britain, but the plebian festival of Feronia offers up a shock, and there is a chance, albeit a slim one that she and Hugh can escape.
The help she needs will have to come from the most unlikely of sources. An annoyingly pretty, yet curiously attractive Celtic girl who awakens...