About the Book
With Diana L. Paxson. Also known as The Forests of Avalon.
The Forest House — prequel to The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s beloved and enduring
classic — is a mesmerizing epic of one woman’s mythic role at a turning
point in history. In a Britain struggling to survive Roman invasion,
Eilan is the daughter of a Druidic warleader, gifted with visions and
marked by fate to become a priestess of the Forest House.
But
fate also led Eilan to Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood, son of the
Romans sent to subdue the native British. For Gaius, Eilan felt
forbidden love, and her terrible secret will haunt her even as she is
anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to
destroy the magic the Forest House shelters, Eilan must trust in the
power of the great Goddess to lead her through the treacherous labyrinth of her destiny.
