Rest is a long, cratered road from here…

The Black Legacy is the gripping conclusion to the Earth’s Ashes Trilogy, by Ric Beard. Plains City. The birthplace of the mysterious militant group, The Black. Inside a new age monastery, the respected ways of the past have been cast aside in the interest of security. Abbot Emmanuel Foster rules with a firm hand, having placated the million-man Horde to the south via an agreement contradicting the very ideals on which the city was founded. Paranoia motivates the hand of the abbot as he dreads the inevitable conflict that will accompany the return of the bloodline—the man known as Moss, the man whose family led the elite infiltrator force of the monastery for over a century—the man whom from whom he stole the throne. Ten years after his excommunication, Porter Moss has gathered friends to him and is ready to act. Can he return the city to the principles of his ancestors to prevent the failures of the old world from destroying all they’ve built?