Book 1

The Realms Thereunder

by Ross Lawhead

Published 11 August 2011

Ancient legend tells of an army of knights that will remain sleeping until the last days.

The knights are waking up.

A homeless man is stalked by a pale, wraithlike creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth. Maimed animals and a host of suicides cluster around a mountain in Scotland. And deep beneath the cobbled streets of Oxford, a malicious hoard besieges a hidden city.

Freya Reynolds is a university student with a touch of OCD and an obsession with myth and folklore. Daniel Tully is living rough on the streets of Oxford, waging a secret war against an enemy only he can identify. Years ago, they found themselves in a world few know is real. They have since gone their separate ways and tried to put that adventure behind them.

But the mythical world is now bleeding into our reality—a dark spiritual evil that is manifesting itself in forgotten corners of the British Isles. Alex Simpson is a Scottish police officer who specializes in hunting mythical creatures. Together, they must confront the past, the present, and points beyond to defeat the ultimate threat to humanity.

Nothing they've seen so far prepares them for what awaits . . . in The Realms Thereunder.


Book 2

A Hero's Throne

by Ross Lawhead

Published 5 December 2012

"Knights of Ennor-the time has come to awake. Rise up to fulfill your secret oath and sacred duty."

The Ancient Earth Trilogy, #2

Deep beneath the streets of England lies another realm . . . one few in our modern world know exists. Daniel and Freya, however, know it all too well. Eight years ago, these friends first journeyed through portals into the hidden land of Nidergeard-discovering a city filled with stones, secrets, and sleeping knights that serve to protect the world they call home.

But Nidergeard has fallen to dark forces, overrun by its enemies. Gates are being opened between the worlds that should have been kept closed. The battle lines for the war at the end of time have been drawn, and opposing forces are starting to gather.

Having served for centuries as the first and last outpost at the borders to other worlds, Nidergeard must be reclaimed and the mystery of its fall discovered. Daniel and Freya, along with an ancient knight and a Scottish police officer, must return to the legendary city, rally the surviving citizens, and awaken the sleeping knights-knights who are being killed, one by one, as they sleep.

But time is running out faster than they know.


Book 3

The Fearful Gates

by Ross Lawhead

Published 1 April 2014

Plans that have been shaped for over a thousand years will finally be executed when dragons awake and the gates between worlds are thrown open.

Daniel and Freya, along with Alex, Vivienne, and the knight Ecgbryt, join together with the inhabitants of Nidergeard to confront the forces allied against them in this final volume of The Ancient Earth Trilogy.

Nidergeard lies exposed and the army that the dark wizard Gad has been gathering over the past years-made from giants, dragons, trolls, and yfelgopes-is finally assembled and ready to invade the nation. All that stands in their way is the Langtorr, the last standing structure in Nidergeard, and its inhabitants.

The fate of Britain-and the world-all centers around the events of a single day . . . a day when the mystery of what lies behind The Fearful Gates is revealed.