A beautiful girl waits, angry and afraid, surrounded by imprisoning walls and men who desire her both to satisfy themselves and to further their ambitions. A powerful man with dreams of preferment callously manipulates those around him to gain his ends and finally stoops even to treason. A young lord, scarred by war in body and mind, attempts to deal with the waking nightmares that wall him off from others and from himself.
A group of once-upstanding men become outlaws in a corrupt world where their very nationality can be seen as a crime. These characters may not sound like Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood and the Merry Men, but they are. Lively storytelling and pacing help make Roberson's impressively mature first novel an enjoyable, almost creditable recasting of the Robin Hood legend as historical fiction.
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