The Danish King’s Enemy

by M J Porter Book 2 in the The Earls of Mercia series.

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And every victory has a cost. Leofwine has done the impossible — convinced his king to face his enemies in open battle, and won. It should be a moment of triumph. It isn't. While Leofwine fought, events elsewhere spiralled beyond control. Olaf Tryggvason of Norway is dead. England has lost an ally. And in his place rises something far more dangerous — Swein, King of Denmark, with the resources of a kingdom at his back and his eye now fixed firmly on England. And on Leofwine. Caught between honour and contempt at his king's court, Leofwine finds himself indispensable when an audacious attack is launched against the king's own mother and children. He answers the call. He succeeds. And his success only makes things worse. Every victory draws Swein's scrutiny deeper into England. The king — impatient, suspicious, looking for someone to blame — turns that scrutiny on the man who keeps saving him. Leofwine has won battles. Can he survive his own king?