Take the field and fight alongside ghost and men of might…

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The Sacred Band [Kindle Edition]

Janet Morris(Author), Chris Morris(Author)

When The Sacred Band begins, all mercy is lost in the fog of war, as Tempus’ Stepsons risk everything on a strange battlefield, infuriating gods and Fates:


 
The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love in war in ancient times. In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, the legendary Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, paired lovers and friends, to fight on other days. These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their two hundred and fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the…

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