The dramatic saga begun in Eirelan and continued in In the Bleak Midwinter now reaches its thrilling climax. The war with the Germans of Norfrieland has broken out in all its fury. Tralee and Dublin have been seized by the enemy. Norfrieland's armies threaten to overrun the Province, Wales, and Kernow, while its powerful professional navy pits its might against the combined naval fleets of the Province, Kernow, and Santander. Aideen and Conor's victorious seaborne assault on Norfrieland's capital city of Hüsum left enemy dockyards aflame and set free hundreds of Celtic prisoners. But a victory at great cost! With the fleet already sailing for home, Conor discovers that Sean Osraige, serving as a translator, is not aboard Richard's warship. The Province's finest scholar--and Feth's betrothed--is missing ashore and may already be dead. The Blood Upon the Rose continues the thrilling tale of the Latter Day Celts' struggle to survive, in a distant future where courage, love and honor are all that stand between civilization and destruction.