The Lion Of Shinar,
Branch I.

Status: Available Now.
Released: October 2026.
Formats: Paperback, Hardcopy, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audiobook (January 2027).

The story of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel deserves more than a footnote in the bible.

Eight generations after the Great Flood, the tribes of Shinar fear that Noah’s covenant is about to be broken. Dreams of rising water have spread among them, along with an old prophecy of a hunter who will reunite the scattered.

Nimrod is seventeen when he kills a scarred lion he has already seen in his dreams. The tribes proclaim him their king.

He promises them a city beyond the reach of another flood, with a tower that will stand above the clouds.

Tubar, his closest friend and a gifted craftsman, will help him build it. He carries the green eyes of Cain’s line, whose ancestors survived the Great Flood upon Mount Olympus. Their knowledge helped build the cities of the old world, though the people of Shinar have not forgotten the sins of their fathers.

Sargon, an elder whose counsel has kept the tribes from tearing one another apart, becomes Nimrod’s advisor. Once a cupbearer, he learned to read the men he served, and the young king has much to learn.

Over fourteen summers, Babel rises from the plains. Men who came freely to build a kingdom find themselves serving a god-king, while the man who first dreamed of the city struggles to recognise what it has become.

In AD 920, Brother Wyn of Caermynach sets down their story. The Lion of Shinar is the first novel in The Lion Trilogy, opening Book of the Western Veil, an interconnected historical and mythological saga.

All that is born in shadow must face the flame.

The Lion of Shinar is an ancient-world historical epic in the tradition of recovered epics like Gilgamesh and Beowulf, and opens Branch One of The Book of the Western Veil.

For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Robert Harris, and Guy Gavriel Kay.

Some books are handed to you. This one asks you to excavate.