The Eagle's Wing: The Gardens of the West Part 1

The Empire of the West is in turmoil. Blood-Drinkers are massing on its northern border political and religious factions are locked in a struggle for power and the Emperor is capricious and sadistic. Mara daughter of a chieftain of the Horse People is abducted by slavers as part of a sinister plot to destabilize the West and the fast-moving events change the lives of many others too including the centurion Thomasius the slave-girl Manasa Aulus good-for-nothing son of a Senator Florianus the eunuch and Decimus enforcer for the only man who can save the Empire -- the General.