The Bloody Border

Name: The Bloody Border
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by Griff Hosker Book 7 in the Border Knight series.

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Sir Thomas of Cleveland is charged with maintaining order along the Anglo-Scottish frontier after kings have negotiated a peace that local feuds repeatedly threaten to break. His son William receives the northern manor of Elsdon and quickly discovers that treaties signed at court offer little protection against raiders, rival lords and betrayal from within his own community.

The border is governed through castles, household retainers and personal reputation as much as through distant royal authority. William’s coming of age therefore becomes a political education in how peace is enforced on the ground. He must learn when violence preserves order and when retaliation simply feeds the cycle of private war that makes the frontier so difficult to govern.