City of Ditches (Roman historical fiction set in Britain)

The slender fingers of morning light touched his tombstone before drifting across the letters carved in stone celebrating Publius Anicius Maximus.Roman soldier, here he lies.Britannia held a fear that he met with determination and overcame. Yet it is Syria that calls him to rest.Poenius Posthumus impatiently sits upon the marshy banks of Acheron waiting for the boatman Charon, guardian god of the river Styx, to return. He is unsure as to whether to row him across to the Underworld for above in the earthly darkness of mortals, there is no tombstone to be read and the world wishes to forget.