For Ash, the beautiful but scarred military leader, life has been entirely dominated by war. She believes that the voices in her head come from the Lord. She is mistaken in that belief. The answer is stranger, and somehow connected to the expanding Visigothic Empire in Carthage.

If you're puzzled as to how one novel can be a series - well "Ash: A Secret History" was first published in the U.K. in a single, huge volume - however for the U.S. market it was broken down and published as a four book series entitled "The Book of Ash."