The Age of Beginnings has ended. The Age of heroes is now beginning.

What if Beowulf is the written account of a story that stretches back to the dawn of time? Helen Bowie asks this question. Hrunting, daughter of Unferth, the mage of Heorot, lives it. Both women fight for the rights of social outsiders against powerful men, heroes with the power to change society, perhaps for the better, perhaps not. The Last Song of the Swan tells the intertwined stories of two women who lived 25,000 years apart. Both stories ask the reader to consider who determines who is human and who is "the other" who must be destroyed.