The Ravenmaster's Oath
A Novel of the Tower's Secret Guardians

About this book:

In the shadow of the White Tower, where the stones remember every drop of royal blood spilled upon them, the ravens are more than birds—they are the realm's oldest secret. Fifteen-year-old Jack Winter has sworn the Ravenmaster's Oath, binding himself to a duty older than the Crown itself: tend the flock, guard the Tower's balance, and serve no king nor queen. But when Queen Margaret of Anjou arrives with her French guards and Yorkist prisoners in chains, the fragile peace shatters. A dying knight presses a jet ring bearing the White Rose into Jack's master's palm, and a wild raven falls from the dawn mist carrying ciphered warning—Warwick has landed, the Kentish men are rising, and the Tower will soon be under siege.

Caught between Lancaster's desperate queen and York's advancing armies, Jack must navigate a fortress turning into a pressure cooker of spies, sieges, and ancient prophecy. The ravens speak in riddles and human tongues, their flight patterns mapping the kingdom's fracture lines. Master Gault guards secrets written in dagger-runes on sheepskin scrolls, while something older than Norman stone stirs beneath the Tower's foundations. As the great guns are winched onto the roof and the city prepares to burn, Jack discovers the true cost of the Oath: the birds don't choose sides, but their keeper must choose whether to save the Crown—or the kingdom itself.

Atmospheric, gritty, and steeped in the mud-and-blood reality of the Wars of the Roses, *The Ravenmaster's Oath* weaves historical intrigue with a thread of dark mythology. For readers who crave the political knife-work of *The Sunne in Splendour* meeting the mythic resonance of *The Once and Future King*, this is a tale where every raven's croak carries a warning, every stone holds a memory, and a boy with a gauntleted fist may be the only thing standing between England and the wolves.