Part of The Last Kingdom, book 2
First published 2007
The Danish victory at Cynuit proves short-lived. Viking armies sweep back across England, seizing three kingdoms and driving King Alfred into the marshlands with a handful of followers. Among them stands Uhtred, the English nobleman raised by Danes, who has always felt his heart belonged with his Viking foster family. When the mysterious sorceress Iseult enters his world, she forces Uhtred to examine loyalties he has never questioned. The Danes who shaped him into a warrior call to him from one side. Alfred and the surviving English look to him from the other. As England teeters on the edge of complete conquest, Uhtred must choose between the men who raised him and the land of his birth. His decision will determine not only his own fate but the survival of the last free English kingdom.
Genres: historical-fiction, military-fiction, adventure, action
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: England, Denmark
Period: Medieval
349 pages · Paperback · Harper Paperbacks