Melody for a Dying Hawk (Heretics of the Alps Book 2)

Dark Ages Historical Fiction
Rheged and three orphaned children, survivors of a barbarian massacre, escape to the Rhaetian Alps. Gerhard, a runaway slave with a mysterious past, helps them carve out a home in the high mountains. Nino, one of the orphans, cannot speak but hides unusual talents that help them battle wolves, raiders and even the pull of Gerhard’s past. Ostrogoths all, they are Arians and as much in danger from the Orthodox Byzantine Empire as they are from Lombard and Frankish raiders.