

Breaca agrees, only to fall into the ruthless hands of the emperor's procurator for taxes. After a tribal elder and dreamer who receives visions from the gods unsuccessfully tries to recruit Boudica's half-brother Valerius, who earlier betrayed the Eceni to the Romans, the dreamer challenges her to go east to rally her people against Rome. Roman invasion of Britannia-has fled in defeat with her followers to the west of the country to continue their resistance. The native warrior Breaca of the Eceni tribe-called Boudica, "Bringer of Victory," for her valiant but failed attempt to repel the first century A.D.

Scott returns to Roman Britannia for the third of four planned installments in her Boudica saga ( Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle
