The second installment in The Druid Chronicles series, The Valley describes protagonist Caelym's boyhood and coming of age in a secluded society where oracles are called on mediate the rifts between the mortal and the spirit worlds, physicians do their healing with amulets and incantations, and bards cite ancient myths to settle villagers' disputes.
Caelym, a young Pagan priest, leaves his cult's hidden sanctuary on a critical mission and ventures into a world where Druids, once revered as healers, poets, and oracles, are now reviled as wizards and witches.
Book Three of The Druid Chronicles introduces Stefan, a Saxon warrior who has fought his way up through the ranks only to lose his command to a better-born rival. Send into political exile as the sheriff of a shire in the furthest corner of the kingdom, Stefan’s fate becomes entangled with the Druids who arrive there seeking a new sanctuary.