Kingdom of the Condemned
At the victory feast, Daveth Cassel is the hero of the war. By the last toast he is its traitor. His own battle plan, in his own hand, sent the crown....
At the victory feast, Daveth Cassel is the hero of the war. By the last toast he is its traitor. His own battle plan, in his own hand, sent the crown prince to die at Gerran Ford. His mentor produces it. His betrothed drops her ring into his wine. The king sentences him to hang at dawn. Then the princess invokes an old law. Give him a ruin instead. Dravenhold: a burned fortress at the only pass into the kingdom, the hold his father was branded for opening to the enemy. No coin. No soldiers. Only the forty condemned men and women the city gaol will release to him: a deserter, a thief, a forger, a bridge-breaker. Hold it until the Midsummer Moot, and he may stand trial before the lords. Fail, and he hangs. The village below hates his name. The neighboring baron wants his land. The horse clans are coming early. And the man who raised him has already told the enemy which road he will take. One hundred and twenty days. Forty condemned. One wall. Daveth is going to build a kingdom out of the people his country threw away. Listen to Kingdom of the Condemned, only on Pocket FM.