“Book Descriptions: When Roman soldier Manius Titinius falls into the clutches of a nomadic warband, his forced march to the Chinese frontier plunges him into a new world of wonder and peril. Manius escapes captivity through the help of a Chinese family. In their village he grapples with the slippery language, learns a new way of life from a feisty child, and undergoes medical treatment by the healer Kang, her remedies as biting as her wit.
Gradually he forges a new life among the Chinese – only for his former captors to track him down and attack. Amid a grueling siege, daring rescue mission, and a hunt across the boundless steppe to save someone dear to him, the displaced Roman discovers a new meaning of family and of home.” DRIVE