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The Titus Chronicles-The Saga of Yanna Part II
The Titus Chronicles-The Saga of Yanna Part II
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With the failure by Sigfred and his Viking army to take Paris, Yanna and her two surviving companions, each of them new mothers, escape to Flanders and Saint-Omer. Yanna, eager to rectify her error in choosing not to leave with her love and the father of their son upon his elevation to Thegn, takes a ship bound for Wessex. The ship is intercepted by the Dane Einarr Thorsten, who, after his failed attempt to capture King Alfred at Stourmouth, had fled the Danelaw to become part of Sigfred’s army outside Paris. However, he leaves before Sigfred’s own departure after failing to take the city, and it is only through a quirk of fate that, after capturing the ship she is aboard, he recognizes the arm ring that, having once given it to Titus the Berserker as a token of friendship, Yanna had used as payment for passage to Wessex.

Taking Yanna prisoner, but under the guise of helping her reunite with her love, Einarr baits a trap for Titus by sending a provocative ransom letter, demanding that Titus surrender himself to Einarr. His purpose is to save himself from Sigfred’s wrath, the Norse leader having discovered that Einarr had aided Titus during the assault on Boulogne-Sur-Mer, when Titus had been serving Count Baldwin II, and for which Sigfred is demanding either a massive payment...or the head of Titus the Berserker, slayer of Sigfred’s son.

Einarr’s plan to lure Titus from Saxon lands is successful, but as he quickly learns, when wagering against this Saxon Thegn, the best laid plans are subject to the whims of Fate.

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PublisherR.W. Peake
Release dateMar 26, 2024
ISBN9781941226674
The Titus Chronicles-The Saga of Yanna Part II
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R.W. Peake

I am a 63 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake.But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends.Marching With Caesar-Birth of the 10th Legion was my first published novel, and is the first in a completed series that covers the career of Titus Pullus, his adopted son Gaius Porcinianus Pullus, grandson Titus Porcinianus Pullus, and his great-grandson Gnaeus Volusenianus Pullus. The most recent release is Volume XIX, Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper.I also have a completed alternate history series, Caesar Ascending, that imagines a world in which Gaius Julius Caesar survives the Ides of March, embarks on his historical campaign against Parthian...then keeps going. Originally it's a bid to outstrip the Macedonian King Alexander by reaching the Ganges River, but evolves into a decade-long campaign that finds Caesar and his Legions marching to the end of the known world in the form of the mysterious Islands of Wa, modern-day Japan.Finally, in 2020, I began The Titus Chronicles, with Volume I titled Eagle and Wyvern, which tells the story of a descendant of Titus Pullus, (though he's unaware of any connection), named Titus of Cyssanbyrig, who at the age of fourteen answers the fyrd sounded by the Saxon King Alfred, marching with Alfred and his army to confront the Danish King Guthrum, culminating at the Battle of Edington. Blessed with the same prodigious size and strength as his ancestor, young Titus learns he is the recipient of a darker gift, and in his first battle earns the nickname The Berserker.The Titus Chronicles mark the first of an extended genealogy of the original Titus that will extend across the ages as the story of a line of men who have been born and bred for war, and are witnesses to some of the great historical events of the ages.

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