Gold Tithings

He’d never had another man belong to him, not like this, where the ties between them were a leash and an iron collar.

When Anton goes to market to buy an ox, he comes home with a slave—rebellious, resentful Petre, who has nothing to say to a free man. To survive on Anton’s remote farm, they have to work together. But trust doesn’t come easily when you’re a slave, and neither does forging a connection across the divide of an iron collar and the ghosts of the past.