Before Beltane

AD 71, Northern Britannia Late Iron Age

At the Islet of the Priestesses, acolyte priestess Nara greets each new day eager to do her allocated tasks. She is a respected healer of the people at Tarras Hillfort and the overseer of the defences of the sacred priestess nemeton - an unusual combination of skills. Weapon training is a guilty pleasure but she is devastated when she is unexpectedly denied the final rites of an initiated priestess. The goddess Dôn has prophesied a new future for Nara...