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The Earl of Mercia
England. A king distracted. A title withheld. A man who refuses to be overlooked. Leofric has done everything asked of him. He has served, fought, and proven himself worthy of his father's earldom. King Cnut knows it. But Cnut's attention is elsewhere. With events beyond England's borders pulling the king in every direction, Leofric finds himself named Sheriff of Worcester — a position of real power, heaped with his father's responsibilities, but stripped of the title he has earned. The earldom he was promised remains out of reach. Yet Leofric is not a man easily sidelined. The king seeks his counsel. The queen seeks his counsel. Even those who would be queen seek his counsel. Only Earl Godwine — Cnut's greatest English ally, bound to the king by blood however thin — refuses to see anything in Leofric but a rival to be despised. The title can be withheld. The man cannot be diminished.
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