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I’m thrilled to be on the blog tour for The Warrior With The Pierced Heart by Chris Bishop today and to have a great extract to share.  Thanks so much to the lovely Kelly from Love Books Group for letting me change to an extract rather than a review when I couldn’t read the book in time due to the kids being ill.

The Warrior With The Pierced Heart is available to buy in paperback now and you can purchase your copy here.

Before I share my extract with you here is a little bit about the book.

Book Synopsis:

In the second book in the exciting and atmospheric Shadow of the Raven series we rejoin novice monk turned warrior, Matthew as he marches ahead of King Alfred, to Exeter to herald the King’s triumphant return to the city, marking his great victory at Edington.

It should have been a journey of just five or perhaps six days but, as Matthew is to find to his cost, in life the road you’re given to travel is seldom what you wish for and never what you expect.

In this much-anticipated sequel Chris Bishop again deposits the reader slap-bang into the middle of Saxon Britain, where battles rage and life is cheap. An early confrontation leaves Matthew wounded, but found and tended by a woodland-dwelling healer he survives, albeit with the warning that the damage to his heart will eventually take his life.

Matthew faces many challenges as he battles to make his way back to Chippenham to be reunited with King Alfred and also with the woman he wants to make his wife. This is an epic tale of triumph over adversity as we will the warrior with the pierced heart to make it back to those he loves, before it is too late.

Extract:

Must my conscience to be burdened for ever by all that transpired that first day after we left Chippenham? Am I to be blamed for all those who perished simply because I did as I was ordered?
If so, then I must crave forgiveness even though I contend that I was not at fault – my only sin was one of undue haste and that I’ve freely acknowledged before God. Even though I might well have been counted among the number of those who were slain that fateful day, all that occurred still weighs heavy
on my soul and thus I would now relate my account of those events – and all that followed – and will do so as faithfully as my memory allows.
You will recall that I, Matthew, christened Edward,third born son of the noble Saxon Edwulf, had forsaken
my commitment to the Holy Church and declined the chance to become a warrior. Lord Alfred, in recognition of
all I’d endured and achieved on his behalf, then offered to let me serve at his court as he sought to secure and restore his ingdom. He even agreed not to oppose my marriage to Emelda, the girl I loved, even though she was, in his eyes and that of many others, both a whore and the daughter of a traitor.
My first mission was to march ahead of Alfred’s army and prepare for his triumphant entry into Exeter to mark his great victory at Edington. Thus, with an escort of a dozen men together with Edmund, the boy I’d offered to adopt and whose father my brother had slain, I set off across our still troubled land knowing full well that bands of restless Vikings still roamed free, armed and intent on vengeance. Even so, it should have been a journey of just five or perhaps six days but, as I was to find to my cost, in life the road you’re given
to travel is seldom what you wish for – and never what you expect.

 

About The Author:

Chris Bishop is a retired chartered surveyor who has pursued his love of writing for as long as he can remember. He is an intrepid traveller and a retired Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is married with two children and four granddaughters and lives in London

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