Thanks James and Nicole at Sourcebooks for allowing me to join your Sworn Sword blog tour!
James Aitcheson was born in Wiltshire, England in 1985 and studied History at Cambridge. Sworn Sword is his first novel, praised by The Mail on Sunday, Historical Novels Review, Publishers Weekly, and bestselling author Ben Kane, among others. The second installment, The Splintered Kingdom, is forthcoming. www.jamesaitcheson.com
SWORN SWORD BLOG TOUR
July 31 - Mina's Bookshelf
August 7 - Tanzanite's Castle Full of Books
August 8 - Devourer of Books
August 11 - Radiant Light
August 12 - Broken Teepee
August 13 - My Reading Room Blog
August 15 - Bibliophilic Book Blog
August 16 - Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews
August 23 - Booksie's Blog
August 26 - Booked and Loaded
Synopsis
JANUARY, 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. 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.
But at Durham the Normans are ambushed in the streets by English rebels. In the battle that ensues, their army is slaughtered almost to a man. Badly wounded, Tancred barely escapes with his life. His lord is among those slain.
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. 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.
As the Norman and English armies prepare to clash, Tancred begins to uncover a plot which harks back to the day of Hastings itself. A plot which, if allowed to succeed, threatens to undermine the entire Conquest. The fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance.
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