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But nobody knows why the flower of English knighthood snuck over the border to capture a savage, dirty teenage.
They ride north, to a crumbling Scottish keep, capturing the feral, half-starved boy within and putting the other inhabitants to the sword.
Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himself in the war, and jumps at the chance when a powerful English baron, William Montagu, invites him on a secret mission with a dozen elite knights.
Edward III is at war with Scotland. 1333