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James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way James can do so is by fire and the sword - the only language King Edward of England understands.

Fourteenth-century Scotland suffers under the heel of England's King Edward, and James Douglas refuses to submit to the conqueror. As he wages a scorched-earth guerrilla war to drive out the invader and reclaim his birthright, Edward brings a vast army to crush the Scots. In the midst of the brutal war, even the woman James loves is threatened by his implacable duty.

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' 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. Yet James believes their cause is not lost.

Honor demands he choose a side. But with a foot in both worlds, how does a true knight fight for what is right?Scotland, 1306. Thomas Randolph holds duty above all. Serving as squire to the much loved lord who raised him, the eighteen-year-old gives little thought to the looming of renewed war with England. But when he is summoned to Scone for a family council, he’s stunned to discover the Red Comyn is dead and his uncle, Robert the Bruce, crowned King of Scots. Knighted by the Bruce, Thomas swears fealty to him, despite feeling he's abandoning the his foster father who is sworn to the ...