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Shield of Blood
by Mette Holm
Book 1 in the The Mowbray Chronicles series.
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Edmund La Fontaine begins life as a French street child with no plausible route to rank or security. Adopted and trained for war, he crosses into the service of England’s ruling dynasty and develops the military skill and persuasive confidence required to survive among princes. Campaigns in the Hundred Years’ War transform him from a dependent boy into a celebrated knight whose advancement is tied to John of Gaunt and the ambitions of the Plantagenet family.
Edmund’s access to royal politics gives him the opportunity to shape marriages, inheritances and rival claims whose consequences extend into the later Mowbray novels. A final bargain made near the end of his career promises either redemption or the destruction of the legacy he has constructed. Published after the first three novels, this is the series prequel and can be read before the numbered sequence or beside At the King’s Command.
