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Alden of Ashcombe has earned a name. Now he must discover what it costs to carry responsibility for others.
Service in the household of Count Renaud de Villiers brings Alden into a very different world from the tournament fields on which he first made his reputation.
Here, knowing how to fight is not enough.
Men must be chosen for what they can actually do. Horses must arrive fit enough to work. Supplies must reach the right place. Scouts may disagree while both tell the truth. Orders can be overtaken by events before the messenger carrying them has even arrived.
And a commander must still decide.…

A good horse. Old armour. A few coins. And a name worth nothing.
Alden of Ashcombe is a third son with no land to inherit and few prospects at home. Rather than accept the quiet security chosen for him, he crosses the Channel to seek his fortune among the knights and tournament households of France.
He believes years of training have prepared him.
They haven't.
Under the demanding eye of Lord Amaury de Vervins, Alden discovers that becoming a professional knight requires far more than courage with sword and lance. He must learn to judge men; read danger; understand the value of horses and prisoners; recognise when information cannot be trusted, and discover that sometimes the cleverest victory is the fight you avoid.…

HAWKE'S TRUST
The Hawke Series, Book Three
Lieutenant Jack Hawke has fought two hard battles and earned his place. Now the sea is going to test him in a way no fight ever could.
Sent three thousand miles from home waters on Foreign Office business nobody will fully explain, Jack finds himself fighting a French frigate, losing a friend to a wound that ends a career, and then handed something worse than either — a superior officer who's never sailed further than a drawing room, appointed for all the wrong reasons.
Twelve men. A storm-battered prize. Three thousand miles of open Atlantic. And a captain who has to trust Jack with everything, because there's no one else left who can be trusted with it.
A story about the kind of trust that's actually earned.

Falmouth, November 1776. Fourteen-year-old Jack Hawke stands on the quayside with everything he owns in a canvas bag, watching his mother say goodbye to the captain she barely trusts, the price of keeping her son off the press gang's list and out of poverty.
Aboard HMS Ardent, Jack finds a berth of strangers who will become the closest thing he has to brothers: loud, shrewd Dunne; precise, watchful Peel, small, determined Tully, the boy everyone quietly protects. He finds Mr Tench, the sailing master who sees something in Jack's navigation that can't be taught, and who once knew Jack's father.
Because Thomas Hawke was a sailing master too, once the finest anyone had seen. He died broken, nine years before this story opens, and no one will say why.…

Jack Hawke is sixteen, gifted, and rising fast, but the sea doesn't care how young you are. A duel with France's finest waits, and a secret about his father's ruin waits with it.
Now serving aboard the Falmouth packet Perseverance under the exacting Lieutenant Thorn, Jack masters a different kind of seamanship – until a chance encounter with a privateer off Cape Finisterre leaves Thorn wounded and Jack alone at the helm.
Posted to HMS Defiant under the brilliant, unpredictable Captain Bevan, Jack is thrown into the full weight of naval warfare: a savage single-ship action against a French frigate, a desperate defence of a merchant convoy, and the quiet, unshakeable presence of Erik Strom, a Swedish able seaman who seems to already know exactly where Jack is going to need him.…