November 1282. An English army has crossed the Menai Strait into Gwynedd, and the Welsh are giving ground beneath the weight of Edward Longshanks' invasion.
Gwion, a veteran of forty summers in Prince Llywelyn's household guard, fights to keep his men together as the English press uphill from the shore. His oldest friend, Meurig, has been wounded, and reinforcements continue to cross the bridge of boats from Anglesey.
But the weather is turning, and Gwion has spent enough years fighting in Wales to know what the Menai can do to an army.
The opening Prologue of The Last Prince, a standalone historical novel by Elwyn Davies, set within Book of the Western Veil.
