A Kingdom's Cost

They killed his father and caged his heart. Now he will become their darkest nightmare.

In 1305, as William Wallace meets a torturous death and Scotland buckles under English rule, they slay James Douglas' father and steal his birthright. He swears to a cause that has already cost him blood and throws his lot with Robert the Bruce, plunging into a war where mercy is a luxury few can afford. Yet amid the clash of steel, a courageous noblewoman offers him a fragile solace, a vision of the life he might have lived had fate not branded him for war.

When his beloved is imprisoned by the English, James faces a choice that could devour his soul. Becoming the terrifying Black Douglas, he wages guerrilla war, blazing a path in blood and violence, in cunning and ruthlessness, bleeding his enemy by inches. Each ambush spreads terror, each victory exacts a toll, and each loss deepens the hunger for justice. From rain-lashed ambushes to blood-soaked battlefields, A Kingdom’s Cost hurls you into a struggle where loyalty, love, and vengeance collide, and one man’s fury may free a nation—or consume him utterly.