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Kingmaker
Book 5 in the Crusader series.
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Thurstan de Banastre, Baron of Waleton, joins other magnates resisting Henry III’s taxation and refusal to honour the principles associated with Magna Carta. His family possesses a more dangerous weapon than a private army: royal jewels stolen from King John’s lost baggage train and preserved as proof that another claimant might be crowned.
The regalia’s history reaches through the fallen Cathar stronghold of Montségur and into the baronial movement led by Simon de Montfort. Thurstan must decide whether using the treasure can reform the monarchy or merely replace one violent ruler with another as England moves towards the Second Barons’ War.
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