The year is 1086, twenty years after the conquest, and the new Norman lords are squeezing their Saxon subjects mercilessly. To survive, the townspeople of Enmore Green band together under the wise leadership of kindly Father Edmund and Sirona, the local seeress with potent powers who is teaching the healing arts to her foster daughter, Aldyth. Beautiful and sensitive, but feisty, Aldyth has decided not to marry but instead to dedicate her life to serving the Goddess of the Crystal Spring. Her decision is complicated, though, by her friend Bedwyn, her companion in the resistance movement--a sexy and saucy Robin Hoodlike figure who has vowed to win her. She also attracts the attention of Gandulf--the son of the hated Norman lord--a gentle, dark, and handsome man who has an affinity for his Saxon subjects. Their tempestuous love triangle is played out against the turbulence of Saxon and Norman life, and is dramatically resolved when a mysterious stranger reveals to Gandulf a dark secret from his past that changes both his and his subjects' futures. In The Keeper of the Crystal Spring, Naomi and Deborah Baltuck display masterful storytelling, spinning a rich and splendid tapestry of love, heroics, sly Saxon wit, and the ever present comfort of the Goddess that will be sure to enchant the many fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley's and Mary Stewart's books.