The Saxon Spears: an epic of the Dark Age: 1 (The Song of Ash)

The old world is burning down A hero will rise from its ASH.Thirty years have passed since Britannia voted to throw off the Roman yoke. Now the old world crumbles. Pirates roam the seas bandits threaten the highways and barbarian refugees land at Britannias shores uninvited. The rich profit from the chaos while the poor suffer. A new Dark Age is approaching - but all is not lost.Ash is a Seaborn a Saxon child found on the beach with nothing but a precious stone at his neck and a memory of a distant war from which his people have fled. Raised on the estate of a Briton nobleman trained in warfare and ancient knowledge he soon becomes embroiled in the machinations and intrigues at the court of Wortigern the Dux of Londinium a struggle that is about to determine the future of all Britannia. A child of Saxon blood an heir to Roman family his is a destiny like no other: to join the two races and forge a new world from the ruins of the old.