Eventually, she makes it to the ceremony that makes her an official gladiatrix. He says that he is one that keeps Caesar’s friends from turning on him.įallon is tested harder than any of the others. He is wondering what game she might be a part of. He tells her that the head lady of the training center bought her only after she saw her sword with the raven carved on it. She blurts that she is the daughter of a king.

When she arrives she finds that there is animosity among some of the groups of gladiatrices.Ĭai visits Fallon often because he is curious about her. It is owned by none other than Julius Caesar, Fallon’s ultimate enemy. When they finally make it to Rome, a training center for women purchases Fallon and Elka. Varro even saves Fallon’s life and Fallon saves Charon’s. On the way to Rome, they pick up an escort of Legionaries, led by Caius (Cai) Varro. The slaver, Charon, knows that they will fetch a good price. Together they prove that they are both fighters. She meets a girl that she reluctantly becomes friends with named Elka.

She runs but is picked up by slavers and stashed away on a boat. Fallon runs away on her own but as she does she witnesses Aeddan murder Mael. Fallon tries to talk Mael into running away but his honor demanded that he confront Aidan instead. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger.įallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's homeland, Alexandria, Egypt.At a public celebration where Fallon had believed her father was going to name her as a warrior for the tribe, he publicly betroths her to Aeddan instead.

When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators.Īmid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. The final book in the Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world: Alexandria, Egypt.

The valiant by lesley livingston