Book Synopsis
Rheged and three orphaned children are the sole survivors of a barbarian raid. They escape to the Alps of Rhaetia. Rheged must carve out a new life for herself with little more than her bare hands and the help of a stranger with a mysterious past. Set in Sixth Century Europe, this well researched historical novel tells traces the peregrinations of the Arians, a persecuted Christian minority, to their last refuge in the high mountain valleys