The Plague of 550

By Murray Hill

A world emerging from the long winter of ash. A new threat rises.

The year is 550. For nearly two decades, the sky has been choked by a sun-dimming shroud of volcanic dust, plunging the world into a shivering, endless twilight. As the frost finally retreats, a merciless pestilence sweeps through the crumbling ruins of Roman Britain, turning once-great cities into silent tombs.

Facing total erasure, a small group of survivors seizes a remote villa, transforming the abandoned estate into a rigorous, stone-walled quarantine station. Guided by the blacksmith Cian, the brilliant Nia, the wise Eldol, and the resilient Martha, they apply Roman structural logic and precise defensive systems to govern their survival. By maintaining these strict protocols and maximizing the estate's existing resources, they hold back the encroaching rot, turning a place of hollowed-out luxury into a bastion of order and grit.

Told through the eyes of those who refuse to let their world die, The Plague of 550 is a harrowing journey of reconstruction. It is a story of what remains when civilization falls, and the defiant struggle to build a future, one stone at a time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719464677
• ISBN13: 9781719464673
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"