Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later know as King Arthur, using his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle against the Saxons.

Gwenhwyfar acts as a son to her father and follows the path of a warrior, until the Ladies of the Well call her to become Arthur's third wife, where she will face new temptations and treachery.

This story begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, and where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people.

Under King Arthur's reign, Kiera--daughter of Lady Alayna--is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead, and Alayna travels to Camelot to entreat Mordred to help resuce her.

In ninth-century England, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is ordered by King Alfred to secure the borders of London and resist the attacks of the Norse Viking brothers Sigefrid and Erik Thurgilson, but his uncertain loyalties toward the crown, and his daughter's recent marriage, make it difficult for him to carry out the

In A.D. 60, the Ecini tribe restlessly waits for the Celtic queen Boudica to rise up and lead them into victory against Rome, and when she arrives, she fearlessly takes control of the armies and uses her own power to take the country's future into her own hands.