The Black Ross (Blood and Banner Book 2)

At Culloden, twenty-year-old Highland warrior Robert Ross should have died in the final charge.Instead, he is torn from the slaughter and cast into Glenmoria in 1892 AC, a brutal age within The War for the Adamite Throne, where hidden pirate kingdoms, church-led traffickers, and buried succession systems feed on the weak from the shadows. Armed first with only his broadsword, targe, and Highland grit, Robert becomes captain of the stolen warship Black Ross and begins carving a path across the coasts of Glenmoria.What begins as survival and low-level raiding becomes something far larger. With the spectral hound Branoc, the silent warrior monk William DeMont, the iron-willed Morag, and a growing company of sea wolves, Robert breaks pirate coves, burns transfer houses, guts hidden archives, and exposes the nightmare machinery behind the coast’s secret power. He learns that beneath merchant houses, grave courts, and false chapels lies a deeper structure: Hall Four, which controls buried heirs and bloodline claims; Hall Six, which controls legal death, erased identities, and the useful dead; and beyond both, the hidden reserve system known as Goldhaven. Read more