An exciting historical fantasy featuring a young man whose shadowed destiny leads him to the past…where he could change our world forever.

On Halloween eve, a frightening encounter with mysterious creatures transports twenty-year old Thomas McCadden to an unknown and ancient world—7thcentury Britain. How did he get there? What does he do now? The answers to these questions change his life forever, revealing secrets that have long been hidden, and a truth that he would rather not know. As he tries to survive this long-ago time, Thomas encounters the unknown and the otherworldly; an exiled warrior, holy men, tribal kings, and something far more sinister shadowing them all.

Is he a tool for the dark forces of this land? Or the liberator sent to save them all? His strange journey forces these and even more important questions: Can he make it back home? Does he even want to return?

Wildingis the first book of The Traveller’s Path, a meticulously researched historical fantasy series set in Northumbria, AD 642. It introduces a long-ago world, and a young man whose choices could have disastrous ramifications for it—and ours.

“L.A. Smith cleverly weaves history and fantasy together into an intriguing tale of Dark Ages religion and magic.”— Matthew Harffy, author of A Time for Swords.

“Wildingis, for the reader, as immersive and intriguing a journey into 7th-century Britain as it is for the time-travelling hero of the story.” — Edoardo Albert, author of Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain.

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