The Forest House, set in Romanized Britain during the reign of Domitian in the first century A.D. dramatizes a period of conflict and transition between an elder and a newer world order and spiritual vision. Gaius, son of a Roman official and a Briton aristocrat (the Silure, a more Romanized tribe near Londinium), is rescued from a boar trap and brought to the house of a Druid patriarch, Bendeigid. A romance quickly develops between Gaius and Bendeigid's daughter, Eilan. When Eilan becomes a priestess at the Forest House, where the High Priestess and her entourage retreat after the rape of Mona, they are parted, although their child, Gawen, conceived at the Beltane rites in spring, is born. Gaius drifts into the aimless life of a lesser Roman official and pointless marriage with a proper Roman lady, still toying with the Briton heritage which draws him...