The Plague of God

A gripping contemporary adventure, an enthralling 9th century epic of intrigue, murder and greed, connected by the power gold holds ... Financially ruined and forced to sell the family property, Tim de St. Clere, a baron in present-day Germany, succumbs to the whispered promise of a fabled treasure and begins a dangerous quest ... Centuries earlier, the same lure of treasure leads Bera, a shieldmaiden to the merciless Viking warlord Godfrid the Dane, to the dark forests of Eastern Francia where she realizes her terrible mistake ...