A Pale Horse

It is spring 1535 and sixteen-year-old Sir Peter Salt sets out for his estate at Applestoke together with his friend, the poet Henry Martley and his squire, the tough old soldier, Ben Watts.  Applestoke turns out to be an impoverished backwater with superstition rife.  The dilapidated church contains a terrifying doom painting featuring the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death on his pale horse.

Peter determines to improve the lot of his people but before he can act he has to set out in pursuit of the sinister Gerd von Richtenberg.  Peter and Ben are soon trapped and facing death.

The sixteen year old Queen of Voravia, Princess Katherine, is on an informal royal tour when she hears of Peter’s predicament and, with only her lady-in-waiting, Elspeth and Henry resolves to try to rescue her friend. 

There are no magic swords or flying horses, Kate and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage. 

A Pale Horse is a swashbuckling adventure story and the second in the Voravia series.