His son is the only reason he still lives.

Warning: abuse triggers

Ualan wants a woman but fears what he learned as a slave to a Roman woman may have tainted him. HIs desires may be too perverse. So he tends to his son, does as his father bids and stays far from the local women.

New to the clan at Eilan water, Ualan intrigues Sorcha. The man takes such good care of his son. But where is the child's mother? Why is it the boy never speaks of her? Ualan and his son are a puzzle Sorcha wants to solve. She has more than a passing interest in them both.