“I am seven hundred and seventy-seven years old and tired, so tired. Gods, let this be the last investigation.”

Gawain is 780 years old, tired, and drinks to forget.

Once a knight of Arthur’s court, he was cursed by Merlin to wander the earth, condemned to uncover the betrayal behind death. Success may finally earn him release. Failure means another lifetime of sleeplessness, another century of ghosts, and another desperate wait for death.

In the winter of 1298, Merlin sends him to Sempringham Priory.

A young novice, Enid, has been brutally murdered. The Prioress insists a vagrant is responsible, but her story soon begins to unravel. As Gawain investigates the isolated religious community, he uncovers a web of secrets, hidden identities and ancient loyalties—and a conspiracy reaching back to the destruction of the Welsh royal house by Edward I.

Enid was no ordinary nun. She had a lover, enemies, and knowledge that made her dangerous.

Among secret conversations in Welsh, a mysterious royal brooch, hidden rooms and a veiled nun who may not be what she seems, Gawain finds himself drawn towards a truth that threatens not only the Priory, but the future of a dynasty.

And at the centre of the mystery is Gwenian, a beautiful and enigmatic lay sister who has awakened something in Gawain he has not felt for centuries.

Love.

But solving the murder may mean betraying the first woman he could have loved in seven hundred years.

THE NUN'S KISS is the first novel in the new Gawain Series, blending historical mystery with Welsh history and Arthurian legend.

The second novel, A MOUTH FULL OF IVY, is already completed and edited. Future books will follow Gawain through some of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of Welsh and British history, from the court of Owain Glyndŵr and Tudor England to Welsh pirates on the Barbary Coast, the Industrial Revolution, the Rebecca Riots, religious persecution and the Chartist movement.