The outcome of the battle is in your hands!
A dimensional gate has just opened, & monsters are surging over the
From the multiple award-winning author of Ysabel, Tigana & A Song for Arbonne, this powerful, moving saga evokes the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, & Norse cultures of a thousand years ago. There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men & women are as challenging as the climate & lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships across the seas, raiding the lands of the Cyngael & Anglcyn peoples, leaving fire & death behind. But times change, even in the north, & in a tale woven with consummate artistry, people of all three cultures find the threads of their lives unexpectedly brought together? Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins, commits an act of vengeance & desperation that brings him face-to-face, across the sea, with a past he's been trying to leave behind. In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances & diplomacy-and with swords & arrows-while his exceptional, unpredictable sons & daughters pursue their own desires when battle comes & darkness falls in the woods. & in the valleys & shrouded hills of the Cyngael, whose voices carry music even as they feud & raid amongst each other, violence & love become deeply interwoven when the dragon ships come & Alun ab Owyn, chasing an enemy in the night, glimpses strange lights gleaming above forest pools.