Length3h 22m
About this audiobook
Ronan is fifteen, and he has failed the first test of manhood his tribe demands: five days alone in the deep forest, proving he can survive without help. Panic did what his training hadn't — he ran, fell, and woke up lost, injured, and alone in territory even seasoned warriors treat with caution.
What he finds in the ruins of a forgotten kingdom will matter more than getting home. Buried beneath the roots of a dead tree lies a two-handed sword, ancient and strangely unrusted — Ferrus Magnus, a blade the old stories say chooses its own bearer.
Getting home is only the beginning. Something has been stirring in the deep forest for a very long time, and it is done staying quiet. As raiders mass at his village's gates in numbers no one has seen before, Ronan has only the hurried, brutal training of an exiled swordsman named Eckhart standing between him and a fight that will ask more of a boy than any trial his people ever devised.
Book One of The Age of Ash — a nobledark epic fantasy
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreFantasy, Action and Adventure
Length3 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9Chapter 7 - What the Forest Teaches
2Prologue - Four Hundred Years Before
10Chapter 8 - Blood and Fire
3Chapter 1 - Smoke in the Pines
11Chapter 9 - The Return
4Chapter 2 - The Trial
12Chapter 10 - The Village
5Chapter 3 - Beneath the Roots
13Chapter 11 - The Raid
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6Chapter 4 - Into the Dark
14Epilogue - The Mason’s Door
7Chapter 5 - The Hermit
15Afterword
8Chapter 6 - Ounces
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