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Harper
July 2011
On Sale: June 28, 2011
Featuring: Arn de Gotha; Saladin; Cecilia
496 pages
ISBN: 0061688630
EAN: 9780061688638
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An exiled warrior determined to unite his homeland returns
to face his greatest battle yet in this stirring final
volume in the trilogy that began with The Road to
Jerusalem—a critically acclaimed epic "destined to become a
classic" (Sharon Kay Penman). Exiled from his home and the
woman he loves, Arn de Gotha became one of the fiercest and
most feared warriors of the Knights Templar. But now that
Jerusalem has been lost to the man who saved him—his
longtime enemy and trusted friend Saladin—the weary
nobleman, ravaged by wounds and illness, can finally return
to his beloved Sweden. During his twenty years of exile,
warring clans have torn Arn's homeland apart. Determined to
reunite it under the Folkung lineage and establish lasting
peace, he sets off with a band of skilled craftsmen and
doctors from the Holy Land whose talents and knowledge are
unknown to the northern world. With the superior skills of
the foreign men, Arn sets about building an estate to rival
those of the most powerful in the region. And waiting for
him is his beloved Cecilia. Emerging from a convent after
their unfathomably long separation, Cecilia is beset by the
clan's demands that she return to monastic life, while Arn
is urged to marry into a competing family, for the sake of
avoiding war. Arn and Cecilia are reunited, but new
obstacles have been set in their path. They can only hope to
convince their clan that love ranks higher than politics,
and that it can sustain a new quest: to create a new people,
a new society—both Christian and Muslim, craftsmen and
warriors—with Arn at its helm. A rousing, satisfying
conclusion to an unforgettable and original epic, Birth of
the Kingdom tells the story of a warrior's transformative
journey, and of the love that founded a nation.
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