Three days after the battle of Arfderydd in 573 AD, Brother Robert walks a field of the dead searching for the bard Merlin. The king lies unburied. Merlin has vanished into the forest. What follows is the moment the legend breaks. A dark Arthurian historical fiction story rooted in the earliest Welsh sources.

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