Corban and the Romans: The Tempus Fugit Series

When Corban becomes a slave to Archimedes in Ancient Greece, little does he know he will sit down to write his memoirs in 2012.The Servants of the Cave are people like you and me. The only difference is they live outside Time, coming out of the Cave and into the world only at times of great crisis -- times when the nameless and mysterious Enemy is abroad. They are also young. No one can pass the doors of the Cave after their eighteenth birthday. They are then trapped, on one side or the other.Rome is a city in turmoil, a city with no leader. It is just the opportunity the Enemy is waiting for. The Cave sends Corban and the girls into Rome to find the Enemy and defeat its purpose. Who is the Enemy controlling? Julius Caesar? He seems certain to take power, but he seems to care for the city and its people. But who else could set the world on the path to destruction?In Rome, they discover that Time is a tricky customer. History is only a matter of opinion, and the truth is merely what is badly remembered. And it has consequences. Things in the past matter to things in the future, but never in a way that you’d expect. Archimedes’ plans do not come out quite the way he expected, and what the children do in Rome will change the future, their future, forever.Corban and the Romans is a 57,000 word novel for young people of all ages. Carefully researched history mixes with the fantasy of a mysterious world within our own. The ongoing battles of the Servants of the Cave and the Enemy’s agents continue in future novels. And Time, as it passes, teaches everyone a few new tricks...