A Kingdom's Cost

They stole his name, his lands, and his father. To win them back, he will rewrite the rules of war.

1305. William Wallace is dead. Scotland lies broken under the iron heel of Edward I. For young James Douglas, the occupation is personal: the English have killed his father and stolen his birthright.

With no army and nothing left to lose, James stakes his future on Robert the Bruce's desperate rebellion. Plunging into a brutal, asymmetric conflict, James quickly realizes that traditional chivalry is a death sentence. To defeat a larger, better-armed enemy, he must out-think, out-maneuver, and out-brutalize them.

From the infamous, bloody ambush of the Douglas Larder to a daring, vertical climb to outflank the enemy at the Pass of Brander, James blazes a trail of tactical terror. Through brilliant strategy and relentless guerrilla warfare, he becomes the English army's greatest nightmare: The Black Douglas.

But in a war where mercy is a liability, vengeanmands a terrible toll. When the enemy captures and imprisons the woman he loves, James faces a brutal calculation. In the clash between military duty, devotion, and a nation's survival, love cannot survive the crossfire.

A Kingdom's Cost is a visceral, meticulously detailed epic of 14th-century military strategy and the brutal realities of the Wars of Scottish Independence.