Why Wait For The Wind‪?‬

1700 years ago the mighty Roman Empire was crumbling. Even the city of Rome itself was under threat. As the situation worsened the emperors became increasingly dependent upon armies from the outer provinces to come to their aid, shoring up the empire’s northern borders and fighting off invading Germanic tribes as well as the dreaded Huns.



More than once throughout this period the legions based in Britannia were sent across the Channel to bolster a fragile section of Rome’s border or fight off an invading tribe and every time they went they left the province defenceless against its own invaders be they Picts Hibernians or Saxons.



Eventually as yet another army set sail across the Channel leaving Britannia vulnerable those left behind, the women of Britannia – noblewomen, women of the hunting classes, women who are no strangers to weaponry and chariots – start to organize themselves and take responsibility for the province’s defences along both the east and west coasts as well as a virtually abandoned Hadrian’s Wall. Little were they to know that as they began to enjoy success in their mission, like many an effective fighting unit before them, they too would become drawn into events on the Continent.



Based upon the legend of St Ursula and her 11,000 virgin-martyrs who met their tragic end at the hands of the Huns outside the gates of Roman Cologne Why Wait For The Wind? is the story of a group of young noblewomen from the south-west of Britannia and tells of their endeavour to raise and deploy an army of women.



There is in fact a smattering of historical evidence to suggest that something like this may have actually occurred. So as you read the adventures of these young women have in mind that what you are reading might possibly contain a grain of truth; something like this may have really happened.