

Audio Excerpt & Giveaway: Sword Brethren (The Northern Crusader Chronicles #1) by Jon Byrne
1242: Wounded at the Battle on the Ice, English knight Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Intrigued by his captive, Alexander orders his scholar to record Richard's life story.
Richard's chronicle begins in 1203, when betrayal shatters his training for knighthood and forces him to flee England. In Lübeck, he finds work with a ruthless salt merchant and becomes entangled in an illicit affair–until scandal and violence drive him onwar
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19 hours ago


Guest Post: Soldiers of Christ (The Northern Crusader Chronicles #2) by Jon Byrne
1205. Richard Fitz Simon has fled England after his title was usurped, joining the Livonian Order of Swordbrothers – a German brotherhood of warrior-monks fighting to bring the word of God to the pagan frontier. After slaying the Lithuanian champion at the Battle of Rodenpois, Richard is celebrated by the Order and their Semigallian allies.
Archaeolibrarian
Jul 10
