A young boy, Evan, with an obsession about a strange shaped hill on a sheep farm in the beautiful Welsh/English borders, grows up to meet a mysterious runaway beauty, a young archaeology student named Ruby, running from a dangerous and predatory father, who has death on his mind for his strong willed daughter. She ends up in Brynafon, a sleepy, dying village and she and Evan become a couple. Ruby realises The Hill is not all it seems to be, and is either ancient burial mound or a fort. Sporadically Saxon artefacts are turning up on the farm washed out of The Hill.