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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 triptych in ninety seconds
From the first Roman fleet to the long road east of Carrhae — three novels, two centuries, and the battered shield that carries through all of them.
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The Hammer and the Shield
Rome can win any battle fought on land. The sea belongs to Carthage.
A senator's disgraced second son who would rather read a hull than hold a sword, Manius answers his father and brother's drowning with an invention: the corvus, an iron-beaked boarding bridge that wins Rome the sea — and carries a flaw only its maker can see.
The Shield Triptych
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