Welcome to the website of Trevor Bloom, author of The Half-Slave.

The year is 476 AD and the Roman empire is disintegrating. The Franks and other Germanic tribes battle for control of Gallia.

Ascha is a half-slave, the son of a slave mother and a Saxon warlord. Sent into exile as a hostage, he struggles to survive. When the calculating young Overlord of the Franks invites him to spy on a Saxon uprising he accepts, but on one condition.

As Ascha confronts the enigmatic warlord of the Saxon confederation, he is drawn into a sticky web of love, revenge and betrayal. He alone can warn the Franks and their Roman allies of the Saxon invasion. But first he must decide where his loyalties lie.