Wessex, Mercia, Danelaw: what will one day become England. Celts, Danes, Saxons, Norse: all are forging their own paths, each paved with blood and faith, both Pagan and Christian.
Black Erlik, the Kinslayer, ventures below Hadrian's Wall with Byzantine nobleman Palladius Mauricius Veratius, his blood brother from his distant past.
The warriors confront a horrific winged evil from Palladius's own... [click here for more]