Gordianus the Finder, drawn back from the country to Rome to keep an eye on his patron Cicero's rival Catilina, is swept into a dangerous mystery when he discovers a headless corpse in his stables.
Aulus Lucinus Spurinna becomes caught up in a tangle of conspiracies, mystery, and danger when he travels to the city of Rome in the last days of the Roman Republic in an effort to find someone who can help save his family's land.
