Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael’s monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina...
Millions of years ago, the Ice Warriors fled to Deimos to sit out the death throes of their home planet, and it is now a popular tourist attraction. But it seems that the Ice Warriors are far from extinct...