King of Thorns

the long version

King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young boy, by a mysterious copper box, by his desire for the woman who rides with his enemy, and by the fact that his father still lives. Plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he committed, and of the atrocities committed against him when he was a child, he is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge against his father continues to consume him, twenty thousand men march toward the gates of his castle. His enemy is far stronger. Jorg knows