Full name: A Kingdom's Cost: A Novel of Scotland

Author: J. R. Tomlin Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781456542788 1456542788

Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James's blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny. The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. The woman James loves is captured and imprisoned. Yet James believes their cause is not lost. With driving determination, he blazes a path in blood and violence, in cunning and ruthlessness as he wages a guerrilla war to restore Scotland's freedom. James knows he risks sharing Wallace's fate, but what he truly fears is that he has become as merciless as the conqueror he fights. Similar books: Margaret the Queen by Nigel Tranter Freedom's Sword by J. R. Tomlin Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King Insurrection by Robyn Young Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson The Island House by Posie Graeme-Evans The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack Attila by William Napier Empire Rising by Sam Barone The White Mare by Jules Watson The Sand Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw The Earl by Cecelia Holland King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate