It had been in the hands of the English crown since the time of William Rufus, and now Thomas de Berkeley was the custodian. Thomas was a contemporary of Bohun and Clare, and like Humphrey de Bohun, had stood by a father who’d fought and lost at Evesham. Like Bohun, too, he’d reconciled with Clar...
She’d felt a change in the atmosphere in the fort a few moments earlier—whether it was the running feet and shouting in the courtyard below her, or simply the sense of urgency permeating the castle—such that when Gareth, Rhun, and Evan had appeared on the edge of the river, and then dived behind ...