Romulus and Fabiola are twins born into slavery, and from childhood they were destined for an unenviable fate. At the age of thirteen, the owner sells Romulus to a gladiator school, and Fabiola to the Lupanarium, a brothel, where she will catch the eye of one of the most influential men in Rome. Tarquinius is an Etruscan warrior and soothsayer, an enemy of Rome, doomed by fate to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. Brennus is a Gaul whose family was killed by the Romans. Driven by hatred, unbroken, he becomes one of the most formidable and invincible gladiators of his time - and the mentor of the slave boy Romulus, who day and night dreams only of escape and revenge. The lives of these four are intertwined in Ben Kane's epic novel The Forgotten Legion, the first of a trilogy of the same name, capturing events that begin in Republic-era Rome, torn apart by corruption, violence and politics, and take the heroes to the farthest reaches of the known world.