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King’s Enemy
First published 2024
After the Battle of Evesham in 1265, Simon de Montfort is dead and the royalists have regained control, but the Second Barons’ War is not finished. Adam de Norton is a prisoner and a defeated rebel, stripped of the security he had fought to recover. His escape from Beeston Castle makes him an outlaw, and with the widowed Joane de Bohun he crosses a country where royal troops, dispossessed rebels and opportunists all make travel dangerous.
Adam eventually joins the surviving resistance at Kenilworth Castle, the strongest Montfortian refuge still defying Henry III. The long siege of 1266 forces him to confront the practical limits of loyalty as food, disease and political compromise wear down the garrison. Ross closes the trilogy by moving from battlefield defeat to prolonged resistance, testing Adam’s chivalric ideals against the harder question of what can still be saved when a cause has already lost the war.
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