Dr. Gwyneth Franger is a renowned expert in
early medieval England who is set upon learning the truth about the death of
Lord Erik, the last descendant of the powerful House of Wareham.
Her quest becomes an obsession, a condition
which began with the discovery of a portrait of the tall and valiant warrior with
which she forms an extraordinary and inexplicable bond.
Digesting troves of mildewed scrolls and
source documentation only enhances her belief that Erik was brutally assassinated
by a cabal of traitors in the pay of William the Bastard shortly before the
onslaught of the Norman Invasion.
On an archaeological dig in Southern
England, her team unearths an Anglo-Saxon fortress, a vast citadel built during
the reign of Alfred the Great, which she believes was Lord Erik’s stronghold.
In the midst of her excitement, she is awakened
one night from her slumbers by a disconcerting anomaly emerging from the site.
Dr. Franger finds herself transported back
to the Dark Ages and at the side of the noble Lord Erik who commands an army of
elite Saxon warriors, a swift and mobile force able to deploy quickly throughout
the kingdom to ward off invaders.
Witnessing the unrest firsthand, Gwyneth
senses that her instincts had been right all along, and she is determined to
learn the identities of the treacherous blackguards hiding in the shadows,
villains who may well be posing as Erik’s friends and counselors.
Will Gwyneth stop the assassins? Is she
strong enough to walk away and watch her beloved Erik die? Or will she
intervene, change the course of history and wipe out an entire timeline to save
the man she loves with all her heart?
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