Published: Sep. 11, 2011
Words: 87,902 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465714688

Short description

What if you had to kill your brother because he betrayed your country and allies you had never met? What if you had to rally the armies of seven small kingdoms for a battle against the world’s premiere superpower? What if the cost of victory was so great that it was almost unbearable? This is Draegnstoen.

Extended description

After the king of the Iceni tribe dies, the Romans follow their standard policy: annex the Iceni kingdom into their empire. When queen Boudicca protests, she is dismissed. When she demands justice, she is imprisoned and raped. After promising to submit to Roman rule, she is released. After all, what could a woman do to challenge the Roman rule of Britain?

Boudicca, however, would not submit. In her fury, she assembled an army, destroyed Roman cities and demolished an entire Roman legion. Finally, in 61 AD, she gathered her nation for a final battle to drive the invaders into the sea. In spite of being heavily outnumbered, Rome won the battle, and Boudicca, refusing to be taken captive again, drank poison and died on the battlefield.

In Draegnstoen, her iron-willed determination carries down through the ages; through fifteen generations of her descendents who share the dream of expelling Rome. Finally, the confluence of fate and chance fires the hopes of Coel, a prince of Ebrauc. De.. (Read more) After the king of the Iceni tribe dies, the Romans follow their standard policy: annex the Iceni kingdom into their empire. When queen Boudicca protests, she is dismissed. When she demands justice, she is imprisoned and raped. After promising to submit to Roman rule, she is released. After all, what could a woman do to challenge the Roman rule of Britain?

Boudicca, however, would not submit. In her fury, she assembled an army, destroyed Roman cities and demolished an entire Roman legion. Finally, in 61 AD, she gathered her nation for a final battle to drive the invaders into the sea. In spite of being heavily outnumbered, Rome won the battle, and Boudicca, refusing to be taken captive again, drank poison and died on the battlefield.

In Draegnstoen, her iron-willed determination carries down through the ages; through fifteen generations of her descendents who share the dream of expelling Rome. Finally, the confluence of fate and chance fires the hopes of Coel, a prince of Ebrauc. Determined to fulfill his ancestor's dream, he assembles a tenuous alliance of northern kingdoms.

In the midst of treachery, tragedy, shifting alliances and with help from the Picts in the north, Coel finally rallies the people to fight one last great battle to decide the history of the land.
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historical fiction, historical fantasy, picts, dark age fantasy

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Review by: Katherine L. Holmes on Dec. 18, 2011 :
Draegnstoen settles at once into the bones. After so much Arthurian tragedy, this book glimmers of a triumphant end, that of the Britain tribes ousting the Romans. I was entranced with the royalty that led to Coel, Old King Cole in British legend, his brother's marriage to his sister and the dragon hunts, depicted so that I wondered if dragons might have become an extinct species in Britain.

The momentum along with the details made me confident of the author's research into the fifth century A.D. And the intermarriage with the Pict tribes from Scotland was charming, in dialogue and in the uncertainty of the alliance. The Pict princess entered battle tattooed and she had a crow at command.

This whole book is elegantly constructed with intrigue and the spying that finally gathers the tribes to Coel. They fight the Romans, one thane revenging a crucifixion, and as the Goths dominate Rome. But it is the focus on individuals that keeps one reading. In the end, I felt a chill in my spine because I believed this book had comprehended early Britain and a war it had won.
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