Runes of War: The Book of Man (7) — DAWN OF A DARK AGE Paperback

"Dawn of a Dark Age" by Jane Welch, Book 7 in the "Runes of War: The Book of Man" series, plunges Prince Rollo into a world of grief and disappointment after the death of his mother, Queen Ursula, and the subsequent loss of his royal inheritance to his younger sister. As his father, Spar, takes the 13-year-old Rollo to his distant barony of Torra Alta in Belbidia, they discover that in the fifteen years Spar has been away, the land has drastically changed: legendary beasts, including a huge golden dragon and swarms of Hobs, plague the land, and the sacred Chalice of Önd, a powerful artifact capable of transferring magic, has been lost, threatening to usher in a dark age if it has fallen into the wrong hands.