The Oath Tested – Kobo eBook

The Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1154. Damascus has opened its gates to Nur ad-Din, and for the first time the kingdom faces one master of Muslim Syria. Wulfric of Hever, the kings man, counts what he has every time he rides away: his wife Mariam, their six children, the old knight Sir Robert in his bed over the hall, and the lamp that burns every night over the gate of the Lamp House.

Over twenty years the household grows. Robert marries and his son is born. Joseph gives his life to the sick of the Hospital of St John. Maris keeps accounts the kings clerks cannot fault, Theodora and then Aveline keep the family chronicle, and the house learns what it costs to serve a king without borrowing.

And the kingdom turns south, to Egypt. King Amalric swears a treaty with the caliph of Cairo, and then breaks his word at Bilbeis; and out of that broken oath rises a young officer named Saladin. When Nur ad-Din and the king die within two months of each other in 1174, a boy of thirteen is crowned in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Wulfric must teach his grandson what he has seen.

The Oath Tested is the third book of The Oath of the Second Son: a family saga of loyalty, faith and the cost of keeping ones word, set in the reigns of Baldwin III and Amalric of Jerusalem.