Michael Stone: Iron Blood Rising

About this book

Six years after disappearing into the Salted Wastes, Michael Stone has finally found the one thing he thought he wanted—silence.

Then the drums begin.

The Iron Blood Tribe is under threat from an enemy unlike anything it has faced before. Armed with forgotten technology, advanced weapons, and tactics designed to exploit every weakness, the invaders are closing in. Beneath the mountains, ancient machines are awakening, and secrets buried since the fall of the old world are beginning to surface.

Michael wants no part of another war. He has already carried the weight of command, counted the dead, and paid the price of decisions no man should have to make twice.

But the Iron Blood need more than a warrior.

They need a commander.

Forced to prove himself through brutal trials and confront the ghosts of his own past, Michael must unite a divided people, reshape their defenses, and prepare them for a war that could erase their civilization forever.

In a dying world where tradition clashes with technology and every victory is bought in blood, Michael Stone must decide whether he can become the leader he once abandoned—or watch another people fall.

The drums have sounded. The enemy is coming. And Iron Blood will rise.