**edited 02/02/14 
 In Princeps' Fury, the empire of Alera finally sees the face of its true enemy, and it's not the barbarian Maraat of the first book or the wolfman-like Canim of the second and third, or even the vicious Aleran slavers and upstarts of the fourth. Alera has finally discovered an enemy that makes all the others seem reasonable and relatively friendly: the Vord. These creepy-crawly bug critters are single-mindedly invading all of Alera, covering it in the glutinous "croach" that they draw their sustenance from, killing and enslaving the citizenry--and time is running out to stop them. Meanwhile, Octavian, Princeps of the realm, is out of reach, on a quest to return a band of invading Canim to their homeland. The high king, Gaius Sextus, assisted by the high lady Isana, the ex-cursor Amara, and her loyal husband Bernard, and hindered by the intricate, petty, and vicious Romanic politics that invade every part of Aleran society, must stop the Vord invasion before it is too late. 
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