New Robin Hood novel – out now!
Robin Hood and the Heretic Prince, the 11th novel in my best-selling Outlaw Chronicles series, is now live on Amazon. At the moment only the eBook is available but the paperback is coming in the next few days. There will also be an audio book created in time but probably not for a few weeks. This is the cover:
The story is set in Sherwood and also in the Languedoc, in what is now the south of France, and takes place at the beginning of the brutal Albigensian Crusade. I think it’s a pretty good story and follows the history very closely. This is the blurb from the back of the paperback to give you an idea.
AD 1209 When a robbery in Sherwood goes wrong, Robin Hood, Sir Alan Dale and a handful of their outlaw friends are forced to flee their homes to escape the wrath of a vengeful King John and his iron-hearted Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
After travelling to the Languedoc, a land of good food, fine wine, elegant love poetry and religious tolerance, the Sherwood men find themselves caught up in a blood-soaked crusade launched by Pope Innocent III. Robin Hood and his band become mercenaries in the employ of the Count of Toulouse, tasked with protecting his people, whom the Pope has condemned to death as Cathar heretics.
At the Castle of Béziers, besieged by an army of fanatical Catholic crusaders, the Sherwood heroes vow to hold its walls against these northern French knights until the Heavens fall. But one member of their company has other ideas . . .
The book fits in the Outlaw Chronicles chronology between The Iron Castle and The King’s Assassin, and it is self-published. This is the third self-published novel in the Outlaw series, and I have copied the title and cover style of Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold (below).
You might also check out Robin Hood and the Castles of Bones on Amazon.
In other news
In late August, I have a new Mongol trilogy starting with Templar Traitor. This is the true story of an English knight who fought for Genghis Khan, and I think fans of my work will love it. You can pre-order it here – and I really wish you would. Advance orders really help an author out.
Oh, and don’t forget that the paperback of Heretic Prince should be out in the next day or two.