For four years Alvan has lived on the road, riding into villages, mending what needs mending, making friends of strangers and moving on before anyone gets close. In the village of Thornbury he stays longer than he ever has, and on the morning he finally leaves, something makes him turn back. What he finds there sets him on the long road west with a young woman who is not who she says she is, and who has her own reasons for never looking back. Their journey leads them to Eisenwald, a hard town of iron where every debt gets collected and neither of them can afford to be recognised. Tales of Eisenwald is the first book of The Long Way West, a medieval tale of adventure, secrets and a bond neither of them saw coming.