On a Sword’s Edge

Name: On a Sword’s Edge
Rating: 4.49 (118 reviews)

by J.R. Tomlin Book 1 in the William the Bold series.

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Scotland, 1263. Sixteen-year-old William Douglas serves as a squire when Haakon IV brings a great Norwegian fleet towards the western coast. Summoned to Ayr and assigned to his newly knighted brother, William imagines that his first campaign will offer a direct path to honour and knighthood.

Storm, confused landings and close fighting around Largs replace that expectation with fear and loss. As Alexander III’s forces resist the invasion and prepare to recover control of the western islands, William learns that leadership begins with service to other men and with surviving decisions that cannot be made cleanly on the edge of a sword.