Detective and mystery stories. It is the late summer of 314 and Rome is shocked by a series of violent abductions asnd murders. Veteran soldiers, men who served Constantine along the Great Wall in northern Britain are being barbarously murdered. The corpse of a young woman, beautifully preserved and apparently buried some years previously, is accidentally disinterred in her uncle Polybius's garden. Who is she? How did she get there? Why is the corpse so carefully preserved? Claudia is faced with this wall of mystery.