num_pages: 348
description: After Marston Moor. After Naseby. War returns to the West Country. Book 5 in the bestselling Uncivil Wars series featuring the adventures of Hollie Babbitt and his rebel rabble of Parliamentarian cavalry. Cornwall 1646. Thomas Fairfax and the Army of Parliament are on the verge of victory bringing the Kings Army to bay in Cornwall. But Hollie far from his wife and the future he's fought so hard to build is bound by honour to stay with his company in the West Country though it may cost him everything he holds dear at home in Essex. And a bitter choice lies before the Cornish captain Kenelm Toogood - freedom of his conscience or freedom for his homeland? .... reminiscent of Cornwells Richard Sharpe. Historical Novel Society review of Red Horse
language: English
title: The Serpent's Root
publisher: Rosemary Tree Press