Bilihild: A Tale of the Irish Missionaries in Germany, A.D. 703

In the wild forests of eighth-century Thuringia, the old gods are dying and something new is taking root. When the Christian Herzog falls dead, his heathen widow Geila seizes power with a single vengeance: obliterate the Irish missionaries who dared bring their foreign faith to Germanic soil. But her son Hedan, the new ruler, has seen something that stops his hand: Bilihild, a young Christian maiden whose quiet conviction haunts him. He offers his Christian subjects peace if she will become his wife. Bilihild accepts, trading her cloistered faith for a throne among enemies. Yet her mother-in-law's hatred never sleeps, and the court that was meant to be her salvation becomes the arena where her faith must face its greatest trial. This is a 19th-century tale of redemptive love and religious conviction, where one woman's choice to love an unbeliever becomes both her burden and her calling.