Lion Hearts

Name: Lion Hearts
Rating: 4.28 (3402 reviews)

by Dan Jones Book 3 in the Essex Dogs series.

First published 2025

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England, 1350. The Black Death has emptied communities, broken families and weakened the structures that once seemed permanent. Loveday FitzTalbot is trying to protect the household he has found after years of campaigning, but Castilian attacks on English shipping and coastal settlements draw him back into dangerous service. The enemy is less visible than the armies he faced in France, and the men directing him have loyalties that change with political necessity.

Loveday’s mission leads towards a long-delayed reunion and a conflict fought across ports, ships and contested shorelines. The surviving Dogs must confront what war has made of them and whether their bond can endure beyond the battlefield. Closing the trilogy, the novel joins the social consequences of plague to the continuing Hundred Years’ War and gives the company’s story a final reckoning with loss, family and allegiance.