For a soldier who was always more interested in history than shooting people, a deployment to garrison an ancient structure in the Middle East seemed like a nice perk in an otherwise monotonous military career. The site, immeasurably old and once the focus of great battles, is now but a collection of lonely monoliths and crumbling walls. But when Lance Corporal James Attridge finds himself alone among the stones, he triggers something ancient and arcane, and is thrust into a story of great heroism from the past ...
