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The King’s Earl
But Cnut won’t let his most trusted ealdorman go quite so easily. He knows that for his fledgling kingship to survive, he needs the old guard from the previous king’s reign to add legitimacy to his. His new men, the men who’ve followed him from Denmark, know how to rule, but not how to rule the English. And Cnut has his eye on an even bigger prize than England alone. Leofric, left reeling by the murder of his older brother and with an ageing father and a dying mother, tries to hold onto his family’s position against the sudden and magnificent rise of Earl Godwine, the newly promoted Earl of Wessex. As much as he despises the new king, he knows his family’s position needs to be upheld. His father has sacrificed too much to allow a usurper to claim the position that is rightfully his.
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