Shadows In The Mere
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The year is 1140 and civil war rages through England like wildfire. The Anarchy has brought death, despair, and terror to the masses, and to teen farm-hand Rosamund, it seems as if God and all his angels must be sleeping.
After their village is sacked and their families are ruthlessly slaughtered, Rosamund, Hereward, and Hilda flee for their lives into the black heart of the night-time marshes, but is the tale of a ravenous evil lurking beneath the mere-water just an old fishwives tale, or are they running headlong into an even graver danger?
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