Hammered Whispers

He watched the Northmen burn Lindisfarne when he was seven years old. His parents never came back from the fire.

Rescued by an Irish monk and carried across the sea, the boy called Miach grows up inside the walls of a monastery in Meath-learning to grind oak-gall ink, copy scripture in the Irish hand, and survive the bruising social world of boys who belong to the land he has only borrowed. When he takes his vows and receives the name Brother Michael, he carries with him a survivor's underst...