The Douglas Bastard, A Historical Novel of Scotland (Archibald the Grim Series, #1)

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, Archie learns the brutal arithm...