Troy has fallen and every other captain is already sailing for his own front door. One of them turns the wrong way at Tenedos, and spends ten years paying for it.
A king who cannot be beaten meets the one man who can match him. What begins as a fight becomes a friendship, and the friendship becomes the reason he goes looking for a way to never die.
Nine years into a war he was promised would make him immortal, the best fighter in the world is sulking in his tent. The insult was small. The cost will not be.
A boy kills a hound and takes its place as guard dog. He is given a choice: a long life nobody remembers, or a short one they never stop singing about.
He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.