A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion

ISBN: 0063310600

Author: Quinn, Kate

Condition: New

From seven bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a gripping and vividly imagined novel following an epic struggle of rebellion against the might of Rome.Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton . . . and these are their stories.A calculating queen foresees the fires of rebellion in a kings death.A neglected slave girl seizes her own courage as Boudica calls for war.An idealistic tribune finds manhood in a brutal baptism of blood and slaughter.A death-haunted Druid challenges the gods themselves to ensure victory for his people.A conflicted young warrior finds himself torn between loyalties to tribe and to Rome.An old champion struggles for everlasting glory in the final battle against the legions.A pair of fiery princesses fight to salvage the pieces of their mothers dream as the ravens circle.A novel in seven parts, overlapping stories of warriors and peacemakers, queens and slaves, Romans and Britons who cross paths during Boudicas epic rebellion. But who will survive to see the dawn of a new Britannia, and who will fall to feed the ravens?