The Gangrel Boy (The Wardstane Chronicles) - Softcover

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Book 1 of The Wardstane Chronicles. Scotland, 1296.

Edward I sacks Berwick and carts the Stone of Destiny south to Westminster, and the chronicles record the theft of a coronation seat.

The chronicles are wrong about what was stolen. The Stone was the wardstane: the anchor of an ancient compact that kept the dead of Scotland sleeping, and with it gone, the kirkyards are going cold, something is riding the night wind, and the order sworn to keep the old offices is down to two old people and a mule. Tam is thirteen, orphaned at the sack, a gangrel boy begging his way around the parishes of Ettrick Forest with a curse he hides: he sees the newly dead. Worse, they see him, and trust him. Saved from a drowning-trial by Thomas the Rhymer himself, the harper who came back from Elfland unable to lie, Tam learns what he was born as, and what is gathering the unforgiven dead of a war-torn realm under a single will for the first time in nine hundred years. As Wallace’s rising sweeps toward Stirling Bridge, the boy nobody wanted walks with the harper, the howdie-wife, a ferryman’s daughter, and a friar with two nails toward the battle history remembers, and the hidden one, fought the night after, over the dead of both nations, that it never saw. Every recorded event happens exactly as history says. Everything the chronicles could not see is at stake.

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