Death of a
King – Massan Gow and the Hounds of St Andrew
Volume I
18th March, 1286 AD. King Alexander III, King of Scots heads
to Fife ignoring all advice to wait until a violent snow storm subsides; he
yearns to see his beautiful, pregnant wife. He never makes it. His crumpled
body is eventually found along with that of his horse suggesting they stumbled
in the white-out and crashed to the rocks below the coastline’s cliffs.
A young local lad, Massan Gow, is found wandering along the beach by the
search party out looking for the king and soon he becomes embroiled in a deadly
game of cat and mouse accused of regicide.
He is held by the Earl of Fife and decides he has to take his destiny
into his own hands but that may be more complicated than it seems. His mother
becomes accused of witchcraft by the secretive society known as the Hounds of
St Andrew. So, not only does the death of a king throw the country into chaos
but a young boy’s family too; and Massan now has to fight to clear his and his
family’s name.
Double-dealing, hidden agendas, personal tragedies and raw action sweep
across medieval Scotland, southern Spain and the Welsh Marches in England. Death of a King is the first enthralling
novel of the Massan Gow and the Hounds of
St Andrew series.
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