Wolves of the Dawn
As the Stone Age slowly gives  way to the age of Bronze, a proud  warrior clan faces the challenge of a new life in an alien land.  Led  by the great chieftain Fomor, once called the Wolf of the Western  Tribes, the clan MacLir knows the limits of stone against the strange  new weapons of their sworn enemy, Nemed MacAgnomian.  And so the people  of the Ax have settles in the fens of Albion, exchanging flint weapons  for farm implements, trading the ways of the warrior for the path of  peace.  But prosperity has not followed on the heels of their decision,  and many in the clan urge their lord to become the Wolf once more . . .  or threaten to rise up against him.   It is Fomor's firstborn son,  Balor, headstrong, and defiant, who receives the sign of the gods that  the time of the Wolf is at hand--as the cruel Nemed and his raiders  sail toward Albion's shores to wipe the clan MacLir from the face of  the earth.  And it is Balor who will take up the forbidden sword  Retaliator to avenge the past . . . .