THE SILURIAN, BOOK Six: THE FOX on the Water A MIGHTY SAGA OVER THE SEA Arthur is gone from Britain, over the seas to fight for his Breton allies, and Bedwyr is left behind. Arthur is gone for years, and how long can the Fox stand being separated in this cruel way? Always rebellious, Bedwyr leaves his homeland and barters for passage to Armorica on a Norseman's long-boat, sailing him over the 'Whale Roads' to find Arthur and bring him home to Britain. Now in a new land to chase the king; a land where Merlin had prophesied that Bedwyr would die in battle, the Fox fights again to the ends of his endurance for Arthur, defying the old druid's prophesy, before returning home to Britain to once again to face death, reunions, betrayals, and changes so great, the final casting of his spear sees the Fox and the Bear take their first steps to Avalon...

THE SILURIAN, BOOK Five: Facing the Bear THERE IS NONE GREATER Here begins Arthur's greatest battle and Britain's greatest victory over the Saxon and Angle alliance as they seek to wipe Arthur's forces from the land. The Angles, led by Arthur's old enemy, the Atheling Colgrin, begin their invasion at Badon Hill, where Colgrin and his force of eight thousand war-dogs face the Bear's two thousand in their last and devastating conflict. Will Arthur stand up to the unbelievable pressures of his command? Or is this the end of his sense of duty to Britain? The fifth astounding book in The Silurian series, Facing the Bear, will take Arthur, Bedwyr and Medraut to the very summit of ultimate power...

A YOUNG WARLORD ARISES Arthur, at age fifteen, has won a great battle between British and Saxon forces, seizing the day from his own supreme commander, Ambrosius Aurelianus. This his first battle win inspires the young Arthur to begin his rise to take full control of Britain's armies with the aid of his first cousin, Medraut, the son of Lot, Uthyr's Pendragon's younger brother. Yet Arthur's rise becomes Bedwyr's greatest challenge: Prince Bedwyr, called the Fox, and Arthur's foster-brother, is the narrator of 'The Silurian' series, and it is through his eyes, through his power and passion, that the great saga of Arthur's life in seen and told. Yet life with the charismatic Arthur is not always easy for the Fox-for Arthur is a challenge in himself. And when Arthur's power rises, Bedwyr's life begins a downward slide into rebellion, and he leaves on a lone path of confusion to fight his inner demons, to find who he really is as his great friend and foster-brother rises higher and higher-high enough for the young Arthur to face his own father, Uthyr, in battle for the right to fly the Red Dragon banner of the Pendragon Warlords. Arthur's battles will one day make Bedwyr the Fox a hero, if only he can stand firm as Arthur's first man, his shield-bearer and brother-in-arms; stand to tell the tale of The Silurian in his own passionate words.

UNFORTUNATE PUBLISHING presents, THE SILURIAN, Book 8, LAST MAN TO AVALON THE KING OF THE FUTURE The final book of The Silurian series is the road to Avalon, paved with death and endings; the advent of a new age that is dark with the fall of Arthur-and Bedwyr fights to the last of his strength to keep his warrior-king alive. Yet their lives have come full circle, and all efforts to save Arthur from falling is futile, as Arthur himself knows his destiny is to die on the battlefield of traitors: Arthur's famous final conflict, the Battle of Camlann ends them all: all but the Last Man-and there is nothing in this world that Bedwyr can do now to stop Arthur's immortal journey to Avalon.

Set in the Dark Ages of Post-Roman Britain, The Silurian is the story of King Arthur told in a compelling new voice. A first person narrative, spoken in grim and graphic detail by Arthur's closest friend and foster-brother, Prince Bedwyr, the Fox. A boy of sixteen, taken to his first great conflict, Bedwyr begins his story on the battlefield where Arthur lies missing after having won his first engagement to war against the invading Saxons, Hengist and Horsa. This is the Fifth Century AD, a time of fierce honesty, as Bedwyr's own words speak it, the words of a young warrior who lives his life in the blood, guts, turmoil and love of an age that was both brutal and brilliant.

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The Silurian, Book 2: THE KING OF BATTLES: AN INVINCIBLE COMMADER ARISES Arthur is now Supreme Commander of Armies in Britannia and just about to begin his annihilating South Saxon campaign, leading his army, now known as the Clan Bear, into the south coast weald where the Saxons have made inroads into British territory. On this campaign, Arthur and his young warrior army destroy the Saxons in battle after battle, a ruthless campaign of fire and superior tactics that pushes the Clan Bear to their limits, pushing the Fox into days of battle-madness and wild anguish as he fights and kills in a relentless need to be Arthur's greatest warrior and champion. And yet it is Medraut, Arthur's cousin, who is pushed too hard and too far, as now, traitors sworn to Medraut's side begin to arise from within the ranks of Arthur's army--traitors too small to threaten Arthur's power now. Still unassailable in his rise, the legend of Arthur as an invincible warrior has already begun, and he breaks the Saxons, and returns home victorious; but not without payment to be had. In the aftermath of battle, it is time for the Bear to return to his land of birth, to Siluria, and there seek out the last living souls of his mother's people; those who survive from their battles against Arthur's father, Uthyr Pendragon. Yet going home causes even more troubles for both Arthur and Bedwyr to overcome, troubles that charge the two young warriors into the sinister hearts of traitors, whose rebellion forces the Fox and the Bear to become more than warriors, but killers.