In this prequel to The Standing Ground we travel back two generations to the origins of the oppressive EGovernment state that gradually infiltrates every aspect of peoples lives in the decade following Brexit and global pandemic. But as the darkness overtakes Britain and other areas of Europe the light of residence wakes in a community that spans the Celtic outposts of Brittany and North Wales. And in a strange child Myrddin Emrys who has also been known as Merlin. Weaving together Arthurian le