Before he was a saint, he was a slave. Before the legend, there was a kid and his rhino-dog.
Book Three reframes a name everybody thinks they know. A young Maewyn — the boy the world would later call Saint Patrick — is taken from his family, dragged across the sea, and sold to a slaver named Mochta. What follows is not the tidied-up version of his life. It's the messy, angry, loyal, stubborn, frequently funny one.
Alongside him: Auggie the rhino-dog, a cast of very unsaintly women (Dári, Conchessa, Rionach, Caoránach), and an ancestral line of wounds that won't quite stay in the past.
