The dramatic story of a seventh-century evangelist Chosen as Eostre's handmaid, Hild will serve the fertility goddess for a year before being wed. Her future is predictable--until King Edwin claims her as kin and she learns that her father was murdered. Her first love is given a command in Edwin's forces and vanishes from her life, wed to her sister. The court is baptized, ending the old religion and Hild's role. Life looks bleak. She can't stop wondering who killed her father. Suspecting Edwin, she challenges him, only to be married off to safeguard his northern frontier....
The dramatic story of a seventh-century evangelist Chosen as Eostre's handmaid, Hild will serve the fertility goddess for a year before being wed....