The Herulian Strain

Far to the north, Odokar, a Herulian warrior scarred by Roman cruelty, leads a band of elite Gadrauhts deep into imperial territory on a secret mission, one that could finally give his people the advantage they have sought against Rome for generations. As disturbing rumors travel from Alexandria to Carthage, Rome, and the Danubian frontier, physicians, soldiers, bishops, emperors, and barbarian warlords are drawn into the same gathering storm. Loyalties will be tested. Faith will collide with fear.

And an empire already fighting for survival will discover that its greatest enemy may be one it cannot see. History remembers the Plague of Cyprian. It remembers the Crisis of the Third Century. But history does not tell us how the nightmare began. The Herulian Strain is an epic historical thriller blending documented figures and events with a fictional story of war, survival, faith, ambition, and one of antiquity's most mysterious pandemics.