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Historical person
c. 940–989
Bardas Phokas the Younger was a Byzantine general who rebelled against Basil II and was proclaimed emperor in 987. His revolt threatened Constantinople and helped prompt Basil II’s alliance with Vladimir of Kiev and reliance on Rus and Varangian troops.
Blood Feud depicts the campaigns against Phokas at Chrysopolis and Abydos as the historical crisis drawing its protagonists into Byzantine service. Phokas’s rebellion, death and defeat are historical; the foreground Viking companions are fictional.
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The six-volume Corban Loosestrife saga begins in tenth-century Ireland when a Viking raid destroys Corban’s family and carries away his twin sister, Mav. His pursuit takes him through Dublin, Jórvík and Denmark before the family attempts a new life across the Atlantic. The later volumes shift much of…
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