January 1069.
The fate of the Kingdom hangs in the balance ....
A plot which, if allowed to succeed, threatens to undermine the entire Conquest.
As the Norman and English armies prepare to clash, Tancred begins to uncover a plot which harks back to the day of Hastings itself.
Yet even as Tancred seeks vengeance for his lord\'s murder, he finds himself caught up in secret dealings between a powerful Norman magnate and a shadow from the past.
Soon the enemy are on the march, led by the dispossessed prince Eadgar, the last of the ancient Saxon line, who is determined to seize the realm he believes is his.
His lord is among those slain.
Badly wounded, Tancred barely escapes with his life.
In the battle that ensues, their army is slaughtered almost to a man.
But at Durham the Normans are ambushed in the streets by English rebels.
Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-Sworn knight and a proud leader of men, is among them, hungry for battle, for silver and for land.
In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria.
Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson.
January 1069
