Octavia was excited to journey with her uncle, Caius Julius Caesar, to Gaul. Her knowledge of magic and her skill with weapons would be an asset for Caesar's plan to add Gaul as a province to the Roman Republic. However, stirring in the north, beyond the Rhine, an army of the undead threatens to overrun the world and plunge it into eternal night. Can an alliance of Roman legions and Gallic warriors stop the threat? Octavia's adventure in the northern lands was about to take a dread turn.