R. W. Peake

The Titus Chronicles-Revenge (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Volume IV of The Titus Chronicles-Revenge, it is the Year of our Lord 885, and newly elevated Thegn Titus of Wiltun does not have much time to enjoy the moment as King Alfred orders him and the other men of Wiltun, led by Lord Eadward, to the sea again, this time to run down a fleet of sixteen Northmen longships raiding the coast of Kent and East Anglia. Achieving a resounding victory over these Northmen at the mouth of the Stour River, the men of Alfred's fleet have less than a day to enjoy the fruits of this success. While in Frankia, Titus had learned that his Danish friend, Einarr Thorsten, was rumored to be defecting from King Guthrum. This is confirmed as fact in a horrible manner, when the very next day Einarr leads a fleet of ships and, taking advantage of an unexpected fogbank, ambushes the victorious Saxons and scatters them. During the ambush, Einarr commits an act so barbarous and dishonorable that Titus swears an oath to hunt Einarr down and kill him. Across the Narrow Sea, Yanna is living in Paris with her sister, agonizing over her decision to remain in Frankia when, to her surprise and dismay, she learns she is pregnant. This event prompts Yanna to decide to sail to Wessex to be with Titus; before she can, on November 25th, a massive army led by Sigfred, the Norse nobleman who has offered a bounty on Titus' head, appears outside the walls. For the next several months, Yanna and her fellow Parisians will endure one of the most brutal sieges of their time, testing their courage and grit. Returning to Wiltun after their time at sea, Titus settles into the duties of a Saxon Thegn, but it is not destined to last long as, immediately after Yule, their King summons the fyrd again, this time to march on London, in response to the news that Guthrum has withdrawn from the city. After achieving a largely bloodless takeover, London is where Titus is destined to spend the next several months, desperate for any news of the siege of Paris, while waiting for Sigfred to try and take his revenge. When the moment he's expecting comes, however, it's not Sigfred, but a man he never expected, nor that this man would use the woman he loved as his weapon for revenge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: R.W. Peake
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941226612
• Artikelnr.: 74385484

Autorenporträt

R.W. Peake wrote his first novel when he was 10.

He published his first novel when he was 50.

Obviously, a lot happened in between, including a career as a "grunt" in the Marine Corps, another career as a software executive, a stint as a semi-professional cyclist, and becoming a dad.

But, through it all, there was one constant: his fascination with history, which led him back to school in his 30s to earn a degree in History from the Honors College at the University of Houston.

One morning years later, R.W. was listening to Caesar's Commentaries while he was on his morning commute to a job he hated. A specific passage about Caesar's men digging a 17 mile ditch between Lake Geneva and the Jura Mountains suddenly jumped out at him.

He was reminded of his own first job at 13 digging a ditch in Hardin, Texas. For the rest of the drive that morning, he daydreamed about what life must have been like not for the Caesars of the world, but for the everyday people who were doing the fighting and dying for Rome, and the idea for Marching with Caesar was born.

Not too long after that, he quit that job, moved into a trailer halfway across the country, and devoted the next four years to researching and writing the first installments of Marching with Caesar.

Some of his research methods-like hiking several miles around Big Bend National Park in the heat of summer wearing a suit of chainmail and carrying a sword so he would know what it felt like to be a Roman legionary-were a bit unconventional and made his friends and family question his sanity.

But such was his commitment to bringing these stories to life for his readers with as much detail and accuracy as possible.

Even as his catalog continues to grow, he still brings that passion to every story he tells.

He has moved out of the trailer, but he still lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington with his Yellow Lab, Titus Pomponius Pullus and his rescue dog, Peach.