Category Archives: Volume 2

Travelogue and tears attend the hero’s welcome awaiting Lord Raymond, still a prisoner of war as Volume 2 begins.

Bird calls and burial mounds mark a long-lost major character’s return to the story.

With total victory at hand, Lord Raymond’s morale only deteriorates beneath the weight of Evadne’s curse.

Lord Raymond’s ambition attains catastrophic proportions. Lionel finally visits Istanbul’s Old City.

Bearing away a cherished corpse found in the wreckage, the survivors of the siege of Istanbul journey back to Greece.

Raymond’s tomb proves too strong an attraction for his widow. Lionel flies again. Philadelphia sends plague.

Dire news from Greece and reports of celestial anomalies reach Lionel back home at Windsor–where he and Idris become proud school parents.

Britain’s new Lord Protector struggles to fit his agenda to the moment.

After bad news from London spoils a country fair at Windsor, the lord of the Castle prepares to face the enemy head-on.

A shared bent for self-sacrifice leads Lionel and Adrian to a very unexpected showdown in Parliament.