![]() While Ruso is put to the task of fixing the recruits, while hearing worrying rumours of their harsh treatment by certain officers, Tilla looks about for clues to the source of the curse. ![]() It’s not long before word spreads of a curse. Unfortunately, Ruso’s arrival and the visit of Hadrian and his empress coincide with a spate of mishaps affecting the legion’s native recruits. ![]() The year is AD 122 and Ruso, along with his barbarian and suitably feisty Briton wife Tilla, rejoins the Twentieth at Eboracum (York) just in time for the chaos that means the imminent arrival of emperor Hadrian, who is on one of his famous imperial tours, no doubt involving a detour to a certain wall. Semper Fidelis is the fifth in Ruth Downie’s Roman mystery series featuring Gaius Petreius Ruso, medicus or doctor to the Twentieth Legion in Roman Britain. ![]()
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