Harold the King

About this book

This story is set in the England of 1044. As dawn breaks over a summers landscape Harold Godwinesson is riding east. One of seven sons of the noble Godwime family he is newly created Earl of East Anglia. But marrying for love sets him against his family and his King. In France William the bastard son of a duke is hungry for power. A charismatic leader he care nothing for the hypocrisy of court only his next victory. Matched by his determined wife Mathilda he casts his eyes towards England. King Edward is alternately influenced and angered by his powerful mother the Dowager Queen Emma. Manipulated into a marriage of convenience with Harolds sister he is at the mercy of his nobles - an he lacks an heir.