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Kings of the North
Book 6 in the The Life and Times of Corban Loosestrife series.
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After escaping Constantinople, Raef and his companions reach Normandy and are drawn back towards Jórvík. Richard II sends his sister Emma to marry Æthelred the Unready, binding Norman interests to an English court already threatened by Scandinavian attack. Raef wants to recover his family’s position in York, but the debts he owes to Emma and Richard conflict with his old kinship to Sweyn Forkbeard and with his responsibility for the young Cnut.
The struggle for England develops through Sweyn’s conquest, Æthelred’s return and the war between Edmund Ironside and Cnut. Raef moves among rival kings while attempting to protect his own children and the people who depend on him. The final volume closes the saga by placing its fictional family inside the Danish conquest of England, where pagan memory, Christian monarchy and personal loyalty are reorganised into the North Sea empire of Cnut.
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