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Falls the Shadow

by Sharon Kay Penman

A king and a rebel baron turn friendship into civil war.

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About Falls the Shadow

Set in thirteenth-century England, Falls the Shadow follows weak, willful Henry III and brilliant, uncompromising Simon de Montfort. Bound by marriage and ambition before becoming implacable enemies, they are drawn into a brutal struggle for power from which only one can emerge alive.

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Slow

Series

Welsh Princes Trilogy · Book 2 of 3

Content warnings
  • antisemitism
  • war
  • sexism
  • sexual content

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