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The Forest House, set in Romanized Britain during the reign of Domitian in the first century A.D. dramatizes a period of conflict and transition between an elder and a newer world order and spiritual vision. Gaius, son of a Roman official and a Briton aristocrat (the Silure, a more Romanized tribe near Londinium), is rescued from a boar trap and brought to the house of a Druid patriarch, Bendeigid. A romance quickly develops between Gaius and Bendeigid's daughter, Eilan. When Eilan becomes a priestess at The Forest House, where the High Priestess and her entourage retreat...

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