In 320 AD Hadrian's Wall separates Roman Britannia from the free lands to the north. Jelena is asked by her father Druid Floyd to travel south of the wall into Roman territory to help the people in the small village of Bramfield. It is a dangerous area for the new Roman emperor has declare that everyone living in the Roman Empire should convert to their new faith. Druids are not welcomed in Roman lands anymore.
With friends, Olwina, Tad and Craddock she reaches Luguvahum south of the wall but with it, a surprise and perhaps the reason why her father sent her south in the first place. She finds he has a third wife, Kigva who is giving birth to a child.
Jelena's half-brother is born but an over-zealous Bishop Eucid wants them
all arrested and Bard Griffen from home who wants to force her to marry him.