Paperback. Pub Date: 2011. Pages: 672 in Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks 1286 AD. Scotland is in the grip of the worst winter in living memory s Some say the Day of Judgement has come. The king of Scotland rides out from Edinburgh into the stormy dark. On the road he is murdered by one of his own men. leaving the succession to the throne wide open. The king's death is as a stone thrown into a pool. the ripples spreading far and wide. Civil war threatens as powerful Scottish families jostle for power. not knowing that Edward. now king of England. has set his own plans in motion. For almost two decades Edward has nurtured a fierce vision of conquest - a vision sprung from the words of an ancient prophecy - that will change the face of itain forever.But all is not destined to go Edward's way. Through the ashes of war. through blood feuds and divided loyalties. a young squire will ...