Dark Age

by Jeffrey T Heyer

Overview

Rhys, a common Briton bard who suffers from bad lungs, and nary a hero nor skilled fighter among noblemen and powerful clerics, is tasked to investigate the disastrous fall of the fortress Castrum Tenebrarum, besieged by Saxon hordes. In the abandoned ruins, he uncovers a hidden tangle of enmities, a beautiful woman imprisoned in the buried vaults, and a bloodletting ritual described in bardic tales from King Arthur's court three generations earlier, when valiant Knights of the Round Table stemmed the tide of an invasion by bloodthirsty monsters. Smitten by the woman, Rhys learns of the Black Knight's hold on her and sets out to destroy him in hopes of freeing her from a terrible curse. The journey tests his mettle, hones his swordsmanship and wits against deadly revenants, and forces him to choose between the love of this woman and duty to his beleaguered country.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940184536071
Publisher:	TWB Press
Publication date:	12/08/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	310 KB

About the Author

Jeffrey T. Heyer has made his living as an actor and director for 40 years, with 88 entertainment employers. He has had scripts produced at the GroveMont Theatre (Monterey), Actors Collective (Monterey County), B3 Theater (Phoenix, AZ) and elsewhere. His theatrical career began when he played Dracula. Feeling asthma suck the life out of him, leaving Jeff more dead than alive made him empathize with vampire victims. The consequent limited ability to defend himself against violent aggressors made him empathize with those who, ruined by a vampire, lose their higher selves and descend into the shadow. Much of his fiction has followed suit.