In this latest book in William's past-life memory novel series, he is now incarnated as a Druid priest near the west coast of fifth-century Ireland when he, along with several other fellow Druid priests and priestesses, must undergo an initiation to re-attain their full spiritual gifts. They can undergo initiation only three times; and by the end of the third attempt, they will either pass and attain their full spiritual powers, or else they will fail and die.
Patrick, born into an aristocratic family in Ireland, is at one point captured, sold as a slave in England, manages to escape and then returns to Ireland with a host of Christian monks with the intention of exiling the Druids permanently from their island homeland and converting all the Celts to Christianity. Can the Druid initiates pass their initiation by the third attempt, gain their powers and repel Patrick and his minion of monks, or will all be lost and they are either exiled or dead?
The two astral ravens from several of the previous past-life memory novels return in this book, again witnessing and giving support to William as the 5th-century incarnated Druid while at the same time squabbling with their own resolved karmic issues between one another.