J. K. Swift

**Book 1 in a completed trilogy with 1,000+ 5-Star ratings on Goodreads** His orders were simple: bring the children home. He failed 200 of them. Brother Foulques de Villaret has devoted his life to God and the protection of the innocent. When the Knights Hospitaller send him to the Alps to...

A small force of peasants from the forest regions surrounding Lake Lucerne, rise up against their Austrian overlords in the 14th century....

A wild land, too mountainous to be tamed by plows…A Duke of the Holy Roman Empire, his cunning overshadowed only by his ambition…A young Priestess of the Old Religion, together with a charismatic outlaw, sparking a rebellion from deep within the forests…And an ex-Hospitaller caught between...

1310 AD. The Knights Hospitaller rule the Aegean from Rhodesbut one ambush changes everything. Thomas Schwyzer, loyal brother-sergeant and captain of the Order's deadliest war galley, the Wyvern, patrols the waves hunting Turkish slavers and Barbary pirates. The Order's black knights and...

1291 AD. The Hospitaller Order is decimated. Acre is lost. The only home Foulques has ever known has been razed to the ground by the Mamluks. Only by the grace of God does he and a handful of knights manage to escape to the island of Cyprus. Once there, Foulques learns that Najya has been taken...

Historical adventure thriller of the final days of the Crusades based on real events They have defeated their Muslim enemies, crushed the unstoppable Mongol horde, and now the Mamluks turn their full attention to the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem. Only the port city of Acre remains in the hands...