"Marcus had passed into a new world, one in which the old truths did not apply,

where the spirit counted for more than the flesh, and the mind for nothing at all."

A tale of adventure; a tale of legends both human and divine; a tale of forbidden love; a tale of a young man at war—-The Equite’s Son is all of these.

Foreswearing his rustic background, young Marcus, son of a Roman nobleman, defies his father’s wishes and seeks adventure as a member of Caesar’s staff during the Gallic Wars.

He is soon leading an epic life of perilous mountain crossings, attempted assassinations, behind-the-lines missions with Green Beret-like Roman commandos, and desparate midnight rides. And he finds that when the face of a beautiful woman repeatedly appears to you on the surface of ponds and deep wells you should run the other way.

In these armours and battles, Marcus discovers that almost everything he has held to be true has revealed itself as false, that he is not only at war against barbarian tribes, but against something deep within himself. And he discovers, too, that the strange dreams that have plauged him since childhood have, all along, been drawing him to these distant lands and an unimagined desitiny.