In Roman Londinium, a record can condemn you before the crime has even been committed.

Marcus wakes beside a wrecked cart with fractured memories, an opened axle and no trace of the woman he was transporting. When he returns to the city, officials are already waiting with their explanation. He took the wrong road. He lost his passenger. His injuries have left him confused.

All Marcus has to do is place his mark beneath the statement.

He refuses.

Following a trail of knots left by a missing stableman, Marcus recovers a sealed cylinder containing evidence of altered routes, reduced households and people transferred through the city’s ordinary institutions.

Behind the records stands Obscura Lex, the Hidden Law. Its members can remove a person from work, food and family before anyone realises that they have disappeared.

With the practical Lucia, the sharp tongued Cata and a growing circle of endangered witnesses, Marcus must prove that the missing are still alive. At the same time, he must protect his damaged memory from officials determined to rewrite it against him.

But the woman in grey has already been taken north.

The official record is travelling ahead of her.

Shadows of Londinium is an atmospheric historical conspiracy thriller about corrupted memory, hidden power and ordinary people who refuse to let the living be erased.

Lucian Wren

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