This story is the second in a series set in an alternative modern Britain that is still ruled by the Roman Empire. Three young people fleeing Roman rule take refuge in the forests and the village of Stand Alone Stan, where they find that the ancient Britons have survived and magic still exists.
Phillip Mann was born in 1942 and studied English and Drama at Manchester University and later in California. He worked in the New China News Agency in Beijing for two years but has lived in New Zealand since 1969, working as a theatre critic, drama teacher and university Reader in Drama.