Author: | Dirk Hessian | ISBN: | 9781922187222 |
Publisher: | BarbarianSpy | Publication: | June 5, 2018 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Dirk Hessian |
ISBN: | 9781922187222 |
Publisher: | BarbarianSpy |
Publication: | June 5, 2018 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Born a by-blow of the legendary future early fourteenth-century Scottish king, Robert deBruce, William Howard is raised at the English court and only learns of his true parentage after he comes of age and returns “home.” He discovers that Sir Thomas Howard, who William has thought was his real father, acknowledges him only to have an heir and does not treat him as his son.
From this point forward William becomes a pawn in linked wars of the Scottish succession and English suppression in the border-lands of England and Scotland. Controlled and used by men for their own advantage from the English king to his own purported father to ambitious knights of the castle and a flamboyant bigger-than-life bloodthirsty Scottish warrior, William must learn to be clever and to use the power- and sexual lusts of other men himself to survive. Behind the scenes is a mysterious protector who helps guide William through this personal and national-scene labyrinth, but will this support be sufficient for William’s needs?
Born a by-blow of the legendary future early fourteenth-century Scottish king, Robert deBruce, William Howard is raised at the English court and only learns of his true parentage after he comes of age and returns “home.” He discovers that Sir Thomas Howard, who William has thought was his real father, acknowledges him only to have an heir and does not treat him as his son.
From this point forward William becomes a pawn in linked wars of the Scottish succession and English suppression in the border-lands of England and Scotland. Controlled and used by men for their own advantage from the English king to his own purported father to ambitious knights of the castle and a flamboyant bigger-than-life bloodthirsty Scottish warrior, William must learn to be clever and to use the power- and sexual lusts of other men himself to survive. Behind the scenes is a mysterious protector who helps guide William through this personal and national-scene labyrinth, but will this support be sufficient for William’s needs?