Title: The Sacred Band
Description: Two Sacred Bands, united for the first time.  The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love in war in ancient times.  In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, the legendary Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, lovers and friends, to fight on other days.  These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their two hundred fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, ghosts take the field, and the angry Fates demand their due.  An adventure like no other.
Subjects: Sacred Band; Sacred Band of Thebes; Sacred Band of Stepsons; Tempus, called the Riddler; mythic novel; Thieves' World, Beyond Sanctuary Series; ancient warfare novel, art of war, age-weight male couples; biseuality and homosexuality in ancient military; sorcery; mythology; action-adventure; love in war.
Places: Battle of Chaeronea; Lemuria, Thieves' World, Sanctuary; Nisibis, Mygdonia, Bandara, Meridian
People: Tempus, called the Riddler; Nikodemos, called Stealth; Cime, Free Agent; Jihan, Froth Daughter; Theagenes, last general of the Sacred Band of Thebes; Askelon of Meridian; Critias and Straton, pait Sacred Band fighters.
Time periods: Ancient times; 338 BCE.; Times of gods and sorceres and ancient warfare on foot and horse