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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
July 2016
On Sale: July 19, 2016
656 pages
ISBN: 0544319516
EAN: 9780544319516
Kindle: B00QPHKQZQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
An epic tale of murder, treachery, bravery, and love In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of
peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their
aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of
these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century
girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with
her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only one
suitor she is interested in: Mathis, a childhood friend who
she can never marry due to his low birth status. But when a
rogue knight attacks Agnes and Mathis shoots the knight to
save her, the two are forced to go on the run together, into
the midst of the raging Peasants’ War. Over the next two years, as Agnes and Mathis travel the
countryside, they are each captured by and escape from
various factions of the war, participate in massive battles,
make new friends both noble and peasant, and fall in love.
Meanwhile, Agnes’s falcon finds a mysterious ring, and Agnes
begins having strange, but seemingly meaningful dreams.
Dreams that lead the two lovers to revelations about their
place in the world and in the emerging German states. With
The Castle of Kings, Oliver Pötzsch has written a
historical yarn that calls to mind Ken Follett’s The
Pillars of the Earth and Bernard Cornwell’s
Agincourt.
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