The moon on the hills - Bill Page

Cirencester AD 367: On a night in late spring, Saturninus dreams of Pascentia emerging alive from the sea. But Pascentia has been dead these three years, drowned when her ship sank in a terrible storm off the coast of Gaul. And who – or what – is Caelofernus, this stranger the dream warned will kill him under the full moon which is now only four days away? Unless, of course, Saturninus, a soldier with a troubled past, can find him before that moon rises and ... So he rides, searching, through the rolling grasslands and deep woods of the green Cotswold Hills. But as the miles pass and the eerie incidents multiply, Saturninus comes to realise that, whatever it is that seems to be leading him towards Caelofernus, might also be bringing Pascentia back to him. Back from the dead. Set towards the end of the fourth century golden age of Roman Britain, The Moon on the Hills is a powerful, atmospheric novel which evokes the mystery and magic of a vanished world – a world of sunlight and shadows, where belief in the dark gods and goddesses of the old religions is still strong.