What if the Druids had conquered Rome? What if Arth Ur Pendragon's sword Caliburn had been cursed? The world would have been a different place …
A place like Bleakbourne, on the River Heath. Leryn the Bard is in search of these stories and more.
Merlin, under a terrible curse, enlists Leryn's aid. In return, Leryn will have the tale that will make him the bard all bards want to be.
However, as Leryn will soon discover, in Bleakbourne, no good deed goes unpunished.