In seventh century Northumbria life can be short and death can be violent. Raiders from the sea are terrorising villages along the coast and the king is too concerned with politics and war to worry about the welfare of his people. These pirates will take your possessions, your woman and your life. Bryn is a Briton. He is a slave owned by Theomund the head of the Anglo Saxon village of Baringham. When the pirates come they kill Theomund and many other men from the village and they take many of the village women including Ingrid the woman that Bryn loves. Bryn decides that something must be...

Mark Furlong is a private detective in a Northern City. He has always avoided any form of personal commitment but now he's shocked to discover he has a sixteen year old daughter. He very definitely doesn't want to become involved. Crystal Brown is the sixteen years old daughter of a heroin addicted mother. She has been in trouble with the police and social services for a number of years. Now she has discovered the identity of her father and she wants to know what he's like. When Crystal's mother dies from an overdose the social services expect Furlong to take responsibility which is something...