Books of the Wode

_Daring the old gods. Defying the new. The making of a legend-and a truly innovative re-imagining of Robin Hood._ When Rob of Loxley finds an injured nobleman's sonin the forest, neither he nor his sister Marion understand what befriending young Gamelyn could mean for the future of their beliefs. Already the ancient spirits of the Old Religion are fading beneath the iron of nobleman's politicsand the stones of church subjugation. More, the druid elders warn that Rob and Gamelyn are cast as sworn adversaries, locked in timeless and symbolic struggle for the greenwood's Maiden. Instead, in a theological twist only a stroppy dissident could envision, Rob swears he'll defend the sacred woodland of the Horned God and Lady Huntress to his last breath if his god will let him be lover, not rival, to the one fated as his enemy. But in the eyes of Gamelyn's Church, sodomy is evil... and the old pagan beliefs must be subjugated—or vanquished.

Legends chronicle Robin Hood & Guy of Gisbourne as the deadliest of enemies. The reality is... complicated. Home & family struck down by Church edict, Rob is taken by the old druid master into the deeps. He emerges with a new name & purpose: Robyn Hode, leader of a band of tight-knit outcasts, claiming the ancient Shire Wode and wielding the Horned God's vengeance with deadly arrows. Also escaping Loxley's destruction, nobleborn Gamelyn has returned from Crusade with his own new identity and purpose-but no absolution. When the two boyhood lovers next cross paths, a brutal game of foxes and hounds ensues, pitting Templar assassin against Heathen outlaw. And as Robyn discovers his sister Marion is still alive, the game turns. Thwarted kings of a breaking realm, Robyn Hode & Guy de Gisbourne must restore the Maiden to her rightful place-and manage to not destroy each other in the process.