Rogue Knight: Marked by Thor
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?Leadership is the ability to convince followers to fight and die to enhance the leader's wealth and power.
Two years after the derath of Charlemagne in 814, a disastrous encounter with the Danes injures Roger Martel, a Carolingian knight, and strands him on the western shore of Britannia. As a result of his leaders' incompetence, he loses faith in Kings, Emperors, and other great Lairds and resolves never to return to the Carolingian Empire. After he recovers, he tracks east to find his old battle companion Drogo. He locates Drogo in the Valley of Strathnith where the old knight has taken up the defense of a small community against Viking invaders. Never one to avoid a fight, Roger joins them and soon finds himself accepted as the leader. Reluctantly, he takes the job while telling himself that he does so only to protect his friends, not become a great Laird himself. Unfortunately, wealth and power are seductive.
"Plus que nous avons, plus que nous voulons. The more we have, the more we want."?Roger Martel
Mature Subject Matter.
Marked by Thor is a Rogue Knight alternate history adventure.
Note: The Rogue Knight series is not populated with gods from Norse Mythology. The Mark of Thor is a characteristic skin burn caused by a lightning strike.
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Ronald D Ferguson also writes YA fiction under the pen name R D Ferguson. He taught college mathematics for many years and published 4 mathematics textbooks during those years. An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, he now writes full-time, both fiction and non-fiction. His short fiction has appeared in numerous venues. He lives with his wife and their rescue dog near the shadow of the Alamo.
