
AD 634 Confusion & conflict continue as warlords battle across Britain to become the first King of the English After a stunning victory against the native Waelisc Beobrand returns to a hero's welcome His valour is rewarded by wealth & land by Oswald King of Northumbria Exhausted he retires to his new estate with his bride only to find himself surrounded once again by enemies old & new With treachery & death on all sides Beobrand fears he will lose all he holds dear On a quest for revenge & redemption he accepts the mantle of lord leading his men into the darkest of nights & the bloodiest of battles The Cross & the Curse is the second gripping action-packed instalment in The Bernicia Chronicles