A young knight rises from the ashes of his ruined family estate in 14th-century England, where the Black Death casts its shadow across the land and the first tremors of the Hundred Years' War rumble on the horizon. Nigel Loring, last of a noble line reduced to poverty by relentless legal battles with Waverley Abbey, possesses nothing but his sword, his honor, and a burning hunger for the battlefield. Arthur Conan Doyle weaves a sweeping tale of medieval adventure: a boy who becomes a man through combat, whose courage catches the eye of King Edward III, and who earns the right to lead the most feared company of archers in England. This is the origin story behind The White Company, the prequel that shows how a landless knight became a legend. It pulses with the raw energy of longbowmen in the mist, castle sieges, and the brutal code of chivalry where a man's worth is measured in steel and blood.
