Praise for the series; "Beautiful prose...reminiscent of the great writers. This writer has something to say and knows how to say it." This is the story of the rise of the warlords. This is how it began. An epic tale of rebellion, a warrior of legend, a girl in the heavens who launched battle after battle in a code that seemed to come from the stars themselves. A realistic and intense tale of urban warfare in the near future and its bitter victory. Non-stop action from the first page that takes the reader through the fall of American of Late Antiquity and the relentless, lethal fighter who brought her down. And after the victory comes the ages of unnumbered years, memory turned to saga, the swords and the sorcery. Bude Rundel is a commander in the underground. The head of the corrupt police state knows it must be, maybe, the year 2108 but what is important is that he wants Bude Rundel dead. In a sudden, catastrophic climate change great storms break out over the Western Cessions and in the flooding Bude is at their fortresses with armed men and a new map of the world —- and they're not in it. He leads his men into savage urban warfare toward a victory that spells the end of Old America and the rise of something unknown. There are no more numbered years, heroes become figures on the other side of history, sorcery and magic will now begin. If he could reach the girl in the heavens he could finally lay down his weapons and join her at history's end. "Bude," the Old Guy said after a moment. Their wise man, their aging and frail sensei. "You must fall in love. And have a place to go to and a person to go to. You need a home." Bude lifted his head; pale eyes, the cropped cap of hair the color of grain. He said, "I did that once already. It sent me to labor camp. I'll keep fighting as long as I can." "No," said the old man. "Don't fight that long." Reviews for the series; "Can't-put-down books from the first page to the last" "They stand out from the ocean of drivel we have become used to." "Realistic...intense...very plausible."