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The Immortal Wound
Book 3 in the The Crimson Chalice Trilogy series.
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Arturo’s attempt to secure a lasting British alliance is damaged when his pregnant wife Daria is poisoned on the orders of Count Ambrosius. He later marries Gwennifer and continues to bind rival rulers and warriors into a force capable of resisting Saxon advance. Political bargaining, disputed succession and personal loyalty lead into sustained campaigning and the culminating battle at Badon.
Victory does not create a permanent kingdom. Arturo’s wounds, the ambitions of those around him and the return of Mordreth carry the story towards the hero’s final combat. Merlin takes the dying leader to a marshland lake, where the disposal of his sword and departure by boat connect Canning’s fifth-century reconstruction to the familiar Arthurian ending. The novel completes the transformation of a war leader into a legend preserved beyond the society that produced him.
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