The Oath Renewed – Kobo eBook

The Kingdom of Jerusalem 1140.Twenty One years after he came east as a squire, Wulfric of Hever is a knight other men bring their troubles to. and heir to Sir Robert De Varennes House on the Nablus Road.: The Lamp House, where a lamp burns over the gate every night for anyone on the road in the dark. With his wife Mariam he is raining a family in a country that is already coming apart.

When King Fulke dies, Queen Melisande rules for her young son, and the court slowly divides between the two. The Second Crusade comes out of the west with two Kings and goes home again after failing before Damascus. Wulfric has given his word to the crown, not to any faction and when the the Queen and the King each summon him to war against the other ,he refuses them both, until he is the only man left who can carry words between them.

And, his children are growing up. Robert is knighted at the chapel door, Joseph is drawn tothe thousand bed of the Hospital of St John. Maris who can add better than the kings clerks, catches a Queens eye. Their cousin Hugh comes East from Kent with the crusade and stays.

Then in 1153, the entire kingdom gathers before Ascalon, the Bride of Syria , a city no Frankish army has ever taken and the Lamp house on the Nablus Road must give everything it has to the seige.

The Oath Renewed is the second book in the series The Oath of the Second Son : a family saga of loyalty, faith and the cost of keeping ones word, set in the reign of Queen Melisande and the fall of Ascalon .