Winter, 1362. After years of successful campaigning in France, Thomas Blackstone, a common archer knighted at Cr cy, has risen to become Edward III's Master of War. But the title is as much a curse as a blessing. Success has brought few rewards: his family--bar his son Henry--are dead, slaughtered; his enemies only multiply. Death, in so many guises, beckons. As he battles to enforce his King's claim to France's lands, Blackstone will assault an...