The Fever at Carnuntum Crossing
A Medical Thriller of the Antonine Plague

About this book:

The Antonine Plague has reached the Danube. At Carnuntum, the Fourteenth Legion returns victorious from the East—but their baggage train carries a silent killer. As the river freezes and Marcomanni war drums thunder across the water, *medicus* Sextus Lucius Marcus watches his patients bleed into their own skin, their throats blooming with the same dark spots that broke the legions at Seleucia. He knows the signs. He knows the history. And he knows the Legate will sacrifice the garrison to military routine before he admits a plague exists.

Caught between the iron discipline of Rome and the invisible fire spreading through the barracks, Sextus races to identify a disease Galen himself fled—while the fever burns in his own blood. With the frontier crumbling, the supply lines severed, and six thousand men packed into damp stone wards, one physician must decide: obey the chain of command, or break every oath to save the legion from itself.

Meticulously researched and ruthlessly paced, *The Fever at Carnuntum Crossing* plunges you into the mud, smoke, and terror of Rome's deadliest pandemic—where the scalpel is mightier than the gladius, and the enemy wears no armor.