WELCOME TO ROMAN BRITAIN. It is almost fifty years since the
legions invaded but Britannia is still a raw, frontier province.
Tensions run high, especially in the north, where Aurelia Marcella,
a young Roman woman fled from the ruins of Pompeii, runs the Oak
Tree Inn on the road to York.
BURIED TOO DEEP. The spring of 98 AD is a time of optimism and
business is brisk at Aurelia Marcella's inn on the road to York in
Britannia. Then a wagon arrives bearing a local farmer seeking
treatment for a grievous sword wound. Before the farmer dies, he
tells Aurelia his family is in grave danger and hints that her
sister's family, living near him, is threatened too. Aurelia sends
for her twin brother Lucius, who is a government investigator.
Together they head for the eastern coast to find out more, and to
check out a shipwreck bearing valuable official cargo. A band of
piratical Gauls is working the area - are they cover for something worse?
