The Bastard's Banner

A bastard daughter watches her father cut down by Danish raiders and her half-brother erase her from existence — all before her eighteenth winter. Ceolwyn of Tamworth was never meant to inherit, never meant to fight, never meant to kneel before a Viking jarl and swear a raven's oath. But Mercia in 868 AD forgives nothing and forgets no one. Caught between Saxon loyalty and Danish ambition, she must forge an impossible alliance to reclaim the home stolen from her — before the Great Heathen Army swallows it whole.