With Ring of Shield

Fifteenth-century England crackles with danger. Walter Bradley serves King Edward IV, but his soul belongs to books, not battlefields. When Sir Frederick Harleston arrives from Calais, the two men form an unlikely bond in the poisonous air of a court where every smile conceals a blade. An expedition to Scotland looms. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, watches from the shadows, his ambitions as sharp as any sword. This is a world where a knight's honor can be his undoing, where the game of thrones plays out in whispered conspiracies and sudden violence. Knox Magee captures the intoxication and terror of medieval court life with prose that feels ancient and immediate at once. For readers who crave historical fiction with genuine period texture and the intimate dramas of friendship tested by war.