New From #1 Bestselling & Award Winning Author
T.E. Wells
The Red Knight of Normandy: Book 1 of The Kingslayer Saga is now available.
Walter Tyrell has a family legend to outlive. Adelice de Clare has a suitor she would rather marry. A commanded marriage binds them, and neither expects what grows from it.
The author discovered during his family genealogy research that the real Walter Tyrell is his direct ancestor, blamed for nine centuries for killing an English king in the New Forest. The Kingslayer Saga tells the story behind the accusation.
The Kingslayer Saga Books
Walter Tyrell III carries a name that has followed his family since Hastings: Kingslayer, a reputation earned by rumor and never fully explained. Thirty-four years later, another English king falls to an arrow in the New Forest, and Walter finds himself accused of finishing what his family started. The Kingslayer Saga follows Walter and Adelice de Clare, bound together by a marriage neither of them chose and drawn slowly toward each other across a kingdom's deadliest conspiracies, in a nine-century mystery that has never been solved.
The Red Knight of Normandy
Book 1 of the Kingslayer Saga - Launch Dec 1, 2026
Young Walter Tyrell III grows up in the shadow of a name he never asked for: Kingslayer, a reputation his family has carried since Hastings and never fully explained. As Walter fights to become a knight worthy of the Tyrell name, a political marriage draws him toward Adelice de Clare, a woman with plans of her own for her future and a suitor she would rather have than him. The Red Knight of Normandy opens the Kingslayer Saga, where duty, honor, and family legacy collide.
The Forging
Book 2 of the Kingslayer Saga - Launch Feb 1, 2027
Married by duty rather than choice, Walter and Adelice must build a life together out of a union that began in cold obligation. As danger reaches the gates of Poix and old rivals resurface, Walter fights to protect the family and land now in his charge, while he and Adelice slowly discover that duty can grow into something neither of them expected. The Forging tests whether two people bound by contract can become bound by love, and whether Walter can become the protector his people need.
The Assassin
Book 3 of the Kingslayer Saga - Launch April 6, 2027
Sent to serve in King William Rufus's court, Walter finds himself caught between his loyalty to France and a king he has come to despise, even as war threatens everything he has built at home. When Rufus falls to an arrow in the New Forest on a summer hunt in 1100, Walter is the man everyone points to, the Tyrell who finally lived up to his family's cursed name. The Assassin brings the saga to its reckoning, weighing four suspects against nine hundred years of history and a question no one has ever definitively answered: who really killed the king?
Before Adelice de Clare ever set foot in her husband's hall, she had already met a future king, stood in the court of Duchess Matilda, who governed half an empire while her husband the Conqueror fought his wars, learned the ancient lessons of her Viking ancestry, and decided exactly what kind of woman she intended to be before anyone else got to choose for her.
Walter Tyrell III, the man she marries, is the author's direct ancestor, and the prime suspect in a 926-year-old unsolved murder. This is the story of the woman who stood beside him, told from the beginning.
A stranger waits for her in Normandy. Before she rides to meet him, she takes one last ride of freedom, and finds out on that ride whether everything she has learned is enough.
What she carries into that marriage, the fire her mother gave her and the lessons she earned on her own, is the only thing that will ever truly be hers.
Five Star Amazon Review
I loved this story! It is very well written and took me straight to the middle ages. Adelice is a very strong young lady of her time, and I can't wait to see how her life continues.
Five Star Amazon Review
Interesting storyline and characters that I very much enjoyed. Adelice is young, but very intelligent and well trained. Best part to me was the conversation with her mother. The affirmation and strength imparted were a priceless gift of identity.
Five Star Amazon Review
An enjoyable narrative and a good preview of what promises to be a well written, well researched saga. I can’t wait for the next one!
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