Description
In the year 610AD a diplomatic mission from Kent seeks to bring the light of Christ to a pagan Dark Age kingdom. But things do not go smoothly, particularly for the priest of the Kentish party when he finds himself entangled in a strange and dangerous web involving the ruthless Kentish Ambassador and a lowly but spirited maid of the oxen.
Not far from the halls of King Radwald and his enigmatic queen, the Lady Ealhhild, a boy in an Anglian village prepares for his rite of passage. When he trespasses on the sacred island of his people he discovers that fate no longer seems in his own hands.