The Shield Left Behind: A Free Historical Fiction eBook

The Shield Left Behind (The Shield Cycle) FREE by Alessandro Catorcini: Cannae, 216 BC. Titus Labonius survives the slaughter of the largest army Rome ever raised, and never knows whether he lay among the dead a moment too long. Exiled to Sicily with the disgraced legions, he carries his battered shield through fourteen years of war, toward Zama and the answer: did he run, or only survive?

This book is Free on October 6, 2026