The Blood of the Fifth Knight

Name: The Blood of the Fifth Knight
Rating: 4 (6653 reviews)

by E.M. Powell Book 2 in the The Fifth Knight series.

First published 2014

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England, 1176. Henry II has confined Eleanor of Aquitaine after the rebellion led by their sons, but supporters of the imprisoned queen remain active. An attempt on the life of Henry’s mistress Rosamund Clifford persuades the king that the attack is part of a wider plan against his rule. He summons Sir Benedict Palmer, whose intervention during the Becket crisis has made him one of the few men Henry believes he can trust.

Palmer leaves Theodosia and their child behind, not realising that the conspiracy already reaches into his household. While he searches for the assassin and the intelligence directing the attacks, Theodosia faces a separate danger created by the same faction. The sequel combines royal family conflict, murder investigation and domestic peril, showing how the unresolved rebellion of Henry’s queen and sons continues through secret agents after open warfare has ended.