Alien overlords keep Earth trapped in a perpetual Dark Age. One barbarian war band has the will to fight back.
Whenever the Lesser Race called humanity dares to build cities, an alien apocalypse descends from the skies. It has happened before, leaving only ruins and legends to tell the tale.
Unaware of the threat, the once nomadic Scythians have settled and built a capital. Arixa, leader of a war band called the Dawn, ranges the steppe in the city's defense. When a fateful encounter leaves her with knowledge that an alien race called the Jir will soon attack, there is no question of whether to resist. She must. The only question is how, when Earth's most advanced weapons are blades of iron?
Arixa's will is also iron. The men and women who follow her are unafraid and eager to take Jir heads. Potential allies await who know something of advanced technology. Scythia will not fade quietly. Axes will split alien skulls, and beings on far-flung worlds will learn the name Arixa.
The Dark Age must end. A new Dawn will rise.
