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
that 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 Lord 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 archeological 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 Lord 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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