While she was growing up, her father was a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Strathclyde and was among the first to start teaching a computer-aided machine tools course. She spent much of his childhood in the small village where his father still lives and hence, he is rooted as could be in the happenings in the countryside.She often considers moving back home from time to time though he has lived in England so long that it has become a second home. It is a small village with a rich history that includes the Covenanters and the Alexanders of Eglington. This tale of war, of invasion of occupation, of vengeance and retribution, this passionate, glorious sequel to Dreaming the Eagle resonates on many levels, but never ceases to engage.Manda Scott is a mystery, thriller, and historical fiction author that was born and raised in a small village near Glasgow in the United Kingdom.
And thus does the Boudica’s brother come face to face with the Boudica’s lover and each learns the truth behind the lies that have been spun. When Caradoc is betrayed and taken as a captive to Rome to face execution at the hands of the Emperor Claudius, Valerius is sent to guard him. His lover is gone, but he nurses a need for vengeance that over-rules the man he once was.
In the east, though, the legions are fighting their own battles and at their heart is a decurion of the auxiliary cavalry Julius Valierus, a tribal man who has taken a Roman name, given himself to the Roman god Mithras and is wedded to the Roman victory. Together these two can forge a strategic alliance with the tribes of the east that might finally rid them of the enemy. With her is Caradoc, her soul-mate and lover, father of her son. In the west, the woman known as the Boudica, Bringer of Victory, marshals her armies intent on driving the invaders back across the sea. Dreamers are crucified, as are those who help them. The warriors of the tribes are forbidden to own weapons under pain of death. Rome rules in the south and east with an iron hand. AD 53: Britain is a nation under foreign occupation.
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