"This arm upholds the house of Lancaster..."
1461 AD. England is at war.The bitter feud between the rival houses of Lancaster and York reaches a bloody climax on the field of Towton. Here, the rising sun of York is truimphant, and the red rose of Lancaster trampled into the mud.
The new Yorkist king, Edward IV, shows no mercy. The defeated Lancastrians are hunted down and killed, or forced to flee the kingdom. Among Edward's many victims are the Earl of Oxford and his eldest son, brutally executed for treason.
John de Vere, the slaughtered earl's younger son, vows revenge on York. His destiny is to uphold the shattered house of Lancaster, through defeat and heartbreak and bitter loss. From the blood-soaked battlefields of late medieval England, to the intrigues of the French court, to piracy on the high seas. This is his story.
KINGBREAKER (I): REBEL AND TRAITOR 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.
