"The ultimate sacrifice." Gwas can outrun a horse, knows how to hide and steal, but is ignorant of the ways of men. Rescued from a miserable existence by an intimidating angel and fated as a Druidic offering, the only direction he wishes to flee is straight into the arms and knife of his savior, Gareth.
"Enduring love." Maura knows Gareth is no angel, but she adores him with a passion that loneliness cannot dent. When he brings her an injured orphan who fears her on sight, she opens her heart.
"Heroic resolve." Gareth is caught between his liege lord and brother's fist, and a dilemma that grows harder to deny with every passing season. If he must defy man and gods to embrace his heart's desires, so be it.
As the clash of old and new religions puts lives in peril, and a coming of age winter finally gives way to spring, the evolution of a colorful myth spreads across the land.