![]() ![]() The signature, large and bold, sprawled right across the corner of the document. For the sake of the love you bore my father, my brother and, I may hope to say, me, come to me. ![]() It is time for old friends to come to my aid. I am surrounded by indecisive men and turncoats, it said. ![]() Josse cannot stop thinking about a scrawled note in the king’s own hand at the bottom of the formal missive: Josse, his brother Yves, and Josse’s son, Geoffroi, set out to help. The king sends an urgent summons to his loyal friend Josse of Acquin along with a few other loyal men. Now King Louis of France is invading, and many of John’s lords are rallying around Louis. After Richard dies on the way home, John retains the crown. The youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine assumed the throne when Richard I-also known as Lionheart-went on Crusade. King John is on the throne of England in 1216. The Devil’s Cup by Alys Clare is the 17th and final book in the Hawkenlye Mystery series, where Sir Josse d’Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John (available August 1, 2017). ![]()
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