Land of Blood and Water

When Vikings battle Saxons what hope for a family against men of power and violence? Brand and his family live simple lives in their quiet corner of Somerset. The war that Wessex wages against the Vikings takes place far away and is of no concern to them. But when a desperate war-band descends upon them one winter night their lives are changed forever. They are thrown into a dark world of savage warfare, lust, revenge and murder. Brand believes he can decide the path that he and his family must tread. But others have very different ideas. At stake is the survival of the kingdom. And now their lives are bound up with the fugitive King Alfred of Wessex.