Set in Norway in the 1880s, this novel is part history lesson, part romance, part haunting.

When the local pastor decides to sell the seven hundred year old village stave church to the German government to be reconstructed in Dresden, a young architect is sent to supervise the deconstruction.

Life in the Norwegian countryside is filled with grueling workdays, unforgiving weather, medical emergencies, and events that make the commingling of pagan and Christian beliefs even more mysterious.

Translated from the Norwegian, this is the first volume of a trilogy.