A bastard novice flees the cloister—and runs straight into a nest of knives.Eighteen-year-old Donald has hidden his Scots tongue and his anger at Lanercost Priory for a decade, until a brutal scourging and a secret letter expose the truth: the Bishop of St. Andrews paid to hide his own illegitimate son among the monks. With vows looming, Donald escapes into the late-winter roads and reaches Carlisle, where a single torch-lit rescue binds him to a wounded knight and...

A bastard born to war. A king forged in exile. A nation on the brink.Scotland, 1338. Archibald Douglas has nothing but his father's legend, a dagger at his belt, and a burning vow to make his own name. When the plague steals his mother and war steals his childhood, the boy raised in King David's exiled court seizes his chance: service under the ruthless Knight of Liddesdale. From pages' brawls in Norman courtyards to blood-slick ladders on the walls of Perth, Archi...

They took his blood and his heart. Now, he will become their darkest nightmare.In the shadow of William Wallace's brutal end, young James Douglas swears an oath. He will not bend. Fueled by a burning desire to fight for his homeland's freedom, he joins forces with Robert the Bruce and rides into a war where honor is a blade and mercy is a luxury few can afford. Yet in the quiet between battles, a courageous noblewoman offers him a glimpse of the life he might have ...

Sir William Douglas, hero of the Battle of Largs, rides to war again! When the Pope calls a crusade, as an honorable knight, William knows he must answer. He leaves behind the conflicts of his homeland to fight for the Holy Cross. But once in the Levant, he must question if that is what he is truly fighting for...

In the shadow of the Battle of Methven's bloody field, Thomas Randolph's life is torn between two worlds.Orphaned and raised by a powerful lord sworn to the English, he has known nothing but the loyalty owed to his adopted kin—until Robert the Bruce's coronation offers him a higher calling. Sworn as a Scottish knight, Thomas rides into battle beside the very king who will forever change his fate.When Methven explodes in a tide of English steel, Thomas falls...

Scotland. 1263. The scent of rain mingles with the smoke of campfires as word spreads: the Norse are coming…As tempers rise between King Alexander and the Norse King Haakon, at the center of it all is sixteen-year-old William Douglas, a squire in service to the Lord High Sir John Stewart.When Haakon's fearsome fleet is espied approaching Scotland's shores, carrying the greatest invasion force the Norse have ever mustered, the dread of battle settle...

'Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath'Tom Holland'A richly detailed account of Pascal's life and times, which displays an energetic sympathy for Pascal's startling combination of intellectual precocity and humble faith.'Rory Stewart'A beautiful, accessible account of one of the era's most remarkable lives'Katherine RundellHe li...

Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43–410). Each inscription is presented in the original (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by a translation and inf...

Since the Scots' horrific loss at the Battle of Neville's Cross, the powerful English hungrily eye Scotland. Archibald Douglas, a landless bastard and knight, will defend the kingdom until his last breath and with his life's blood. But in this fight, who can he trust? And who is the traitor? It may not be whom he once thought.

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This is the first book aimed at occupational therapists to examine the background and impact of stress on individuals’ lives, as well as providing practical interventions to address it.Whether you work with clients coping with chronic illness, the onset of disability or a range of psychosocial challenges, stress is a hidden but often all-pervasive issue in your professional practice. This book therefore provides a comprehensive understanding of what stress means, how it can be unde...

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. This book reveals that story. Nonna's childhood writings, revisited in her late adulthood, tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl from a family that had known wealth and privilege, then exposed to German labor camps, learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness. This story of loss, of love, and of forgiveness is one...