Kingdom Divided

A man’s life may depend on the keenness of his blade, but a kingdom’s fate rests on a single oath.

Lachlan ap Branig, the bastard son of a king, was never meant for greatness. But on the night his father’s army is betrayed and slaughtered, he alone is tasked with a dying king’s command: avenge his murder, unite a shattered kingdom, and destroy the traitor who now wears the crown. His own cousin, Gilliard.

Hunted as a deserter and trapped in a web of spies and shifting allegiances, Lachlan must build an army from nothing. To win, he must become a leader, a strategist, and a politician—everything he was never raised to be. But as the civil war deepens, Lachlan learns that the price of honor is blood, and the most dangerous enemy is not the man on the throne, but the brother standing at his side.