A two-time Aurora Award winner, best-selling author Guy Gavriel Kay has garnered the International Goliardos Prize and World Fantasy Award nominations for his brilliant fiction. In this compelling Canadian Sunburst Award nominee—set in a ninth-century, Alfred the Great-like kingdom—seemingly random events ultimately connect Erling raiders with Anglycyn and Cyngael princes. “[A] wonderfully imaginative historical fantasy …”—Publishers Weekly