The Fox and the Bear

Introducing "The Silurian" series – King Arthur reborn.
By Author, L.A. Wilson

From the heroic tales of King Arthur comes a raw, riveting and passionate series of novels from author, L.A. Wilson, who breathes fresh new life into this spell-binding mythological cycle. Told as a first-person narrative by the conflicted prince of Gwynedd, Bedwyr, called 'the Fox' - the man closest to Arthur's heart - 'The Silurian' series is an amazing journey into the past, where the social order was kept by the sword, by loyalty unto death, and the desire to be free: free to survive in the face of Saxon invasions, of violent internal conflicts, and free to love unshielded within their Dark Age war-hosts of warrior brothers.

Energized by L.A.'s powerful and unconventional story-telling, a whole dramatic world of brotherhood, war, love, hate, and betrayal is created and viewed through the exotic eyes of Prince Bedwyr, the Fox. This is his story. The story of Arthur, the Bear of Britain, and his rise to power, and ultimately his journey into the mythical realm of 'The Once and Future King'.

In The Silurian, book 1: 'The Fox and the Bear', Arthur, at age fifteen is the winner of a great battle between British and Saxon forces, seizing the day from his own supreme commander, Ambrosius Aurelianus. This battle win causes Arthur's father to formally reject his son, through fear of Arthur's growing power. This rejection causes Arthur to begin his rise to take full control of Britain's armies with the aid of his first cousin, Medraut, the son of Lot, Uthyr's younger brother.

Yet Arthur's rise becomes Bedwyr's greatest challenge, and the Fox's life begins a downward slide into rebellion, and he leaves on a lone path of confusion to fight his inner demons, to find who he really is as his greatest friend and foster-brother rises higher and higher in power—high enough to face his own father, Uthyr, in battle for the right to fly the Red Dragon banner of the Pendragon Warlords. Arthur's battles will one day make Bedwyr the Fox a hero, if only he can stand firm as Arthur's first man, his shield-bearer and brother-in-arms; stand to tell the tale of The Silurian in his own passionate words.