#1 – Traitor’s Blood
England, 1642. Captain Innocent Stryker returns from the wars in the Low Countries scarred, battle-hardened and determined to find Captain Eli Makepeace, the man who nearly killed him. Stryker serves the Royalist cause from loyalty to his comrades rather than devotion to aristocracy, relying on the…
#2 – Devil’s Charge
As England’s civil war deepens, Captain Innocent Stryker remains loyal to his small company and to Lisette Gaillard, an intelligence agent serving Queen Henrietta Maria. Prince Rupert sends him to discover what has happened to Lisette and the man she was protecting, whose knowledge may give…
#3 – Hunter’s Rage
Captain Innocent Stryker and his company are posted to Dartmoor, where an elite Parliamentarian cavalry force led by Colonel Gabriel Wild attacks them and inflicts severe losses. Wild’s pursuit is assisted by Osmyn Hogg, a witchfinder with his own history of hatred towards Stryker. Cut off…
#4 – Assassin’s Reign
In 1643, Royalist victory at Bristol turns King Charles’s army towards Gloucester, a strategically vital Parliamentarian city whose governor, Edward Massie, is suspected of divided loyalties. Captain Innocent Stryker enters the city to learn whether Massie will surrender. The mission follows the loss of a close…
#5 – Warlord’s Gold
Autumn 1643. Captain Innocent Stryker leaves the Royalist headquarters at Oxford with orders to recover a missing treasure needed to finance the king’s war. The trail leads towards the Scilly Isles, where isolation, difficult seas and divided local loyalties make a supposedly contained operation increasingly dangerous.…
#6 – Marston Moor
The campaigns of 1644 carry Major Innocent Stryker through the Royalist advance in northern England, including the fighting around Bolton and Liverpool and the attempt to relieve besieged York. Royalist, Parliamentarian, Scottish and regional armies converge as Prince Rupert races to preserve the king’s position in…