"Ravished with joy incredible..."
1483. John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, is now a prisoner. His allies, Warwick and Clarence, are dead. His king, Henry VI, has been murdered. Henry's son, Prince Edward, lies butchered on the battlefield. Margaret of Anjou is condemned to live in exile. The house of Lancaster is broken.
Then, the warrior-king Edward IV dies unexpectedly. His two young sons are consigned to the Tower by their uncle, who takes power as Richard III. When the princes vanish, the Yorkists start to turn on each other.
The Lancastrian cause, which seemed dead, starts to revive. An obscure Welsh exile, Henry Tudor, proclaims himself King of England and begins to assemble an army. Henry turns to the one man who can lead his army to victory against the battle-hardened Richard III. Oxford's time has come at last....
KINGBREAKER (III): THE RED ROSE is by David Pilling, author of The Bloody Hand series, The Champion, Leader of Battles, Reiver, Caesar's Sword, Edward I and Wales, and many other fiction and nonfiction works.
