Publisher's Synopsis
Introducing Bethran, Seer of the Picts. Set around the year 690 ad, during the golden age of the Pictish Kingdoms, lovingly researched and lavishly written. The story follows the adventures of Bethran, a Pict wise-man and seer, respected in the communities he visits and known by noblemen and kings. Set in the northernmost lands of the Pict Tribes, in those lands that are now called Inverness-shire, Sutherland and Caithness. Bethran undertakes the journey he has taken every year since he can remember. A long journey north, to a settlement under the kingship of Lord Cullcoil, where he is to perform a mid-summer rite that is already centuries old. Unfortunately, his meeting with a young man will alter the course of his life forever, set him on a route more arduous than his pilgrimage north