Castor's Ordeal: Dacian Wildcat Series: Book 1
In the mountains of ancient Dacia, ten-year-old Castor is determined to become the protector his family needs.
His father left two years earlier to fight the Roman invasion and never returned. With food scarce and his mother struggling to provide, Castor asks to take the manhood challenge years before any boy in his village has ever attempted it. He is young, stubborn, and reckless-but he is also skilled, courageous, and desperate to help.
When Castor earns his place among the men of the Apuli, he believes he is finally ready to protect his family.
Then the Roman legion comes.
Castor's hidden mountain village is attacked, and the world he knows is torn apart. Captured with the surviving villagers, he is forced onto the road toward Tomis as a slave. Barefoot, wounded, and watched by soldiers who see him as property, Castor refuses to stop fighting for his mother, his sister, his grandmother, and his friends.
Yet the Roman officers Panos and Darius are not the enemies Castor expects. One shows him unexpected kindness. The other is harsh, dangerous, and strangely interested in Castor's family. As the journey carries him farther from home, Castor must face not only hunger, pain, and fear, but a truth that could change everything he believes about who he is.
Castor's Ordeal is an upper middle-grade historical novel set during Rome's conquest of Dacia. It is a story of courage, captivity, family loyalty, survival, and the painful cost of growing up in a world shaped by war.
Content note: includes realistic depictions of ancient warfare, captivity, corporal punishment, and the aftermath of battle.
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