A Kingdom's Cost
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4.2 • 407 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James's blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny.
The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. The woman James loves is captured and imprisoned. Yet James believes their cause is not lost. With driving determination, he blazes a path in blood and violence, in cunning and ruthlessness as he wages a guerrilla war to restore Scotland's freedom. James knows he risks sharing Wallace's fate, but what he truly fears is that he has become as merciless as the conqueror he fights.
Customer Reviews
A fine tale
The geography is quite hazy and needs correcting, but the story is quite fine. There is no possible way that standing in the castle Tioram they are on the shore of Loch Moidart.
Amazing
I couldn’t pull my eyes away. Such a great book
Well written historical novel
The characters and setting in this gripping novel are well described and true-to-life in the well-researched and fascinating tale centered on the conflict of Robert the Bruce and Edward Longshanks. The book kept me in thrall from beginning to end. Luckily, this is only the first book of a series!