House of Mercy

Description

When a hailstorm ruins her father’s crops, Bethan goes as a kitchen servant to Oxfield. There, she intends to work off her family’s debt to Lord Drustan before returning to marry the fervent son of a local priest. Yet, in her first days at the old Roman fortress, Bethan meets two men who are very different from the priest’s son, friends who have dark histories . . . and shrouded futures.

In his twenty years, Deoradhan has swallowed much of sorrow’s cup and found it bitter. Haunted by his father’s murder at the hands of one he trusted, distanced from the Roman God who betrayed him, burning to obtain his rightful throne in the rugged north, the young exile returns to Logress, where High King Arthur holds together a frail confederacy.

There at Oxfield, Deoradhan’s friend Calum seeks absolution for a deed he committed many years ago . . . a deed that ended in the death of one dearest to him and drove him from his home.

Will Deoradhan stop at nothing to gain his rightful position? Is atonement possible for Calum after so many years? And what of those—including Bethan—whose lives have become interwoven with theirs?