The Druid (The Dawning of Muirwood, #1)

by Jeff Wheeler

Find the desire that secretly throbs within every breast, and you know how to master the moment.

Eilean

blue flowers.

kirtle

First th...

then the ...

Tintern Abbey

wretched.

C...

“Ardys

the abbey,

Then she saw him,

Aisic

Bryant,

Ely,

Llewe...

mitching.

High Seer of Avinion

Aldermaston’s

Gilifil

the abbeys were all interconnected through the

magic of the Medium.

Apocrisarius,”

Everyone knew Aisic wanted to be more than just a wretched.

He had ambition—a feeling Eilean recognized in herself,

Llewellyn’s brow furrowed. “Who cares what you think?”

At sunset, the eyes of the Leerings set into the stone walls of the abbey brightened. It made the structure visible for leagues in every direction, a bastion of the maston order, a symbol of the strength and mystery of the Medium.

Hissop,

Ardys,

Loren,

Ever since she could remember, she’d had a terror of the dark.

Eilean and Celyn, both seventeen,

a person stepped out of the shadows, hand on the hilt of a blade.

“Hold there, lass. What’s the hurry?”

Pry-rian,

A feeling of unease came over her as he continued to stare at her. He gestured with his fingers for her to hand him the loaf.

She was the cook when I was a learner here for a year.”

and another cloaked warrior stood blocking the way,

hand on the hilt of his gladius.

“I’ve come with som...

“not to murder ...

Aldermaston Gilifil,

reddish-gray beard and long locks

Standing before him was an older woman in a cassock,

with a crown nestled in her hair.

“Surely you can stay for a slice, Your Eminence,”

Our abbeys will be a bastion of change in the kingdom of Moros.

This will mark the end of years of war.

And you must persuade your prisoner to disclose the informa...

“The prisoner you mentioned.