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My Wild Irish Knight Battle weary Daegan McGrath, commander in King Brian’s army on campaigns to unify Ireland, returns home to learn that both his wife and child died shortly after his daughter was born. Crushed with grief, he seeks sanctuary in the abbey where he grew up, under the kindness of the monks. Deserting his post in King Brian’s army, Daegan’s deep Christian faith leads him back to the only home he knew. Punishment for desertion is death, but all Daegan ever wanted was a family of his own and now those dreams have been dashed so the threat of death holds no power over him. Aishling, daughter of Druid Domnhail and Priestess Ceridwyn, has been trained in the Old Ways since she was a baby. By a strange turn of events, the local monastery petitioned her family to adopt a foundling that was left on their doorstep. Caring for a girl child was forbidden at the Abbey. The great Scourge of Druids had begun and after the arrest of her parents, Aishling is the only one left to raise Alura, her daughter of her heart. Aishling secures a safe hiding place within a forest ruin but not before learning her own mysterious beginnings. She too had been left as a foundling at the abbey some twenty years before and Domnhail and Ceridwyn had loved her as their own. Now she is thrust into hiding, caring for her child in the wilds of the faery fort; scared, alone and forced to survive as best she could. A sacred book (what we now know as the Book of Kells) is entrusted in the hands of the monastery. Upon his arrival at the Abbey, Daegan is charged with finding the Druid’s daughter and to take the sacred tome to a safe hiding place. As a devout Christian, Daegan is appalled at the prospect of aiding a heathen Druid. Aishling cannot trust a man linked to the religion that has persecuted her family. Aishling’s and Daegan’s worlds collide with unexpected parallels that could either bring them together or tear them apart.