A collection of true, amusing stories from the past.

Major Lorn Mullone, recovering from the assault of New Ross, is still trying to apprehend De Marin, a French spy who is working with the United Irishmen. Mullone's journey takes him to Vinegar Hill where twenty thousand rebels are surrounded by the British, but that won't Mullone in his quest. This short story ties in with Liberty or Death, the first novella in The Soldier Chronicles historical series.

Aurelia, a Noble Roman woman, had heard of the savage British tribes, their mystic Celtic ways, and the battles the Roman army was fighting against them on their shores. The battles her soon-to-be Husband, Quintus Acquilla, was fighting in the name of the Eagle. But she could not have predicted that, when she crossed the ocean to be with him and fulfil the marriage contract between their families, she would be captured by a Barbarian War Lord and made to be his War Prize...