Book description
Alfred the Great has been dead for a decade. His legacy: an uneasy
alliance between the neighbouring kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia.
Wulfgar, a young priest in training, more at home with his books
than with a sword, has been tasked with an impossible mission. He must
travel secretly to the badlands of the North and find the bones of a
long lost saint.
But the Northern territories are under the rule of Viking invaders.
And if Wulfgar is discovered, they will have his head...
V. M. Whitworth is an academic and historian. After reading English
at Oxford, an M. A. and D. Phil from the Centre for Medieval Studies in
York, Whitworth published
Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England
. Having worked as a lecturer, tour guide, artist's model and EFL
teacher, Whitworth now lives on a smallholding in Orkney with family,
cats, ducks and occasional sheep, planning further adventures for
Wulfgar.
