Vassal Bound: The Dragon King

They should have killed him on the field.Instead they put him in irons and sent him nine days up the road to be hanged in front of a crowd, because a beaten man is worth more to a new king than a dead one.Thomas Vaus has lost a war, a country, and a king he swore to. What he has left is eleven years of command, a reputation his enemies cannot quite bring themselves to disbelieve - and, chained across from him in the dark of a prison wagon, a hooded stranger who has not moved in two days.There is a coast in the north where nobody cares whose vassal a man used to be. There are ships to be bought with promises. There is a walled port that has never once been taken, and a jarl who will lend him everything he needs and expects to be repaid twice over.And there is the thing the stranger can do, which costs more than it gives, every single time.He does not want the throne back. He wants the men who took it.Vassal Bound is a story of hard winters, harder choices, and the ugly work of building a kingdom out of debts and other people's fear - and of the price, always paid by somebody else, of putting a crown on a man who was never meant to survive the road.What you're getting: - Magic and its consequences.- Competence as drama.- Realistic and relatable dialogue. - Twenty-seven original illustrations. Volume One of the Vassal Bound Series.