Warbow (The Saga of Roland Inness) - Softcover

Grant, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505586313 ISBN 13: 9781505586312

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Having found his place as a squire to a Norman knight, Roland Inness sets off with his master, Sir Roger de Laval, and fellow squire on a perilous mission to the Holy Land. King Richard has sworn to take Jerusalem from Saladin and orders Sir Roger to assess the military situation. Joining them is the Templar Knight Tuck as they contend with Moors, Berbers and a Sicilian usurper before reaching the battlefields in the east. There, Roland sees the ugly face of war and tests his mettle.

In England, the land is awash in political intrigue, led by Prince John and Sir William de Ferrers, Roland's mortal enemy. Countering them is Queen Eleanor who picks Sir Roger's daughter Millicent for her own mission—one that puts her at the center of a plot to turn England against King Richard.

The Saga of Roland Inness series begins with this tale of a fourteen-year-old boy who has extraordinary skill with a longbow. It is a story of courage, loyalty, honor and treachery. Most of all, it is a story of high adventure set in a time so filled with drama it has spawned legends that fascinate people to this day. It is the time of Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshall, legendary figures all--some real and some fictional.

The first four books in the saga—Longbow, Warbow, The Broken Realm and The Ransomed Crown tell the coming-of-age story of the young archer. A Prince of Wales, the fifth in the series, follows Roland Inness as he leads the legendary Invalid Company into Wales to help Llywelyn the Great win a throne. The sixth book in the series, Declan O'Duinne, set in Ireland, was released in November, 2018. A new Roland Inness adventure will be out in late summer, 2019.

If you would like to know more about the author or get updates on new books, visit his webpage at www.waynegrantbooks.com or the Longbow Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Longbowbooks/ .

About this title

From the Author

I actually began telling the story of Roland Inness to my two sons when they were middle and elementary school ages, but as they demanded more adventures from my hero Roland, I found it too hard to spin a coherent tale of this length right from my head.  So I began to write the stories down and it became a bit like an old Saturday matinee serial.  After several months of weekly installments, I went back and looked at what I had done and it struck me that I had the "bones" of a book. With considerable effort, those "bones" became the first book in the series, Longbow.   The second book in the series, Warbow, was published in January, 2015.  That novel takes Roland and his companions to the 3rd Crusade, where Roland sees the ugly face of war and tests his mettle, while back in England, Queen Eleanor tries to preserve the throne for King Richard against the machinations of Prince John and Sir William de Ferrers. 

About the Author

Wayne Grant grew up in a tiny cotton town in rural Louisiana where hunting, fishing and farming are a way of life. Between chopping cotton, dove hunting and Little League ball he developed a love of great adventure stories like Call It Courage and Kidnapped.Like most southern boys he saw the military as an honorable and adventurous career, so it was a natural step for him to attend and graduate from West Point.

He just missed Vietnam, but found that life as a 2nd LT in an army broken by that war was not what he wanted. After tours in Germany and Korea, he returned to Louisiana and civilian life.

Through it all he retained his love of great adventure writing and when he had two sons he began telling them stories before bedtime. Those stories became his first novel, Longbow.Longbow is the first book in the Saga of Roland Inness series. The sixth book in the series, Declan O'Duinne, was published in November, 2018 and a new Roland Inness adventure will be out in late summer 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1505586313
• ISBN 13: 9781505586312
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 261