Prized and Honoured — L.J. Hutton

You know the hero, you know the legend ...or do you?

The man known as Robin Hood is back from the crusades in his home shire of Nottingham, battle-scarred and filled with a passion to help save the ordinary people. With just his friends he can achieve very little, but with his cousin, Sir Guy of Gisborne, acting as the spy within the sheriff's camp it's a very different story.

Working alone within Nottingham Castle, Guy risks all to help his cousins Robin, Little John and Allan o'Dales, and chief amongst the dangers is the spoilt young Sheriff fitz John. Incompetent and lazy, fitz John nonetheless has a knack of shifting blame elsewhere â€" especially where the exploits of a certain outlaw are concerned â€" until one day he goes beyond what even the infamous Chancellor Longchamp can condone, but not before Guy and his friends have suffered terribly.

And then there's also Prince John! The king's youngest brother takes every opportunity to try and take the throne for himself, and with Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire having been handed over to the prince to live off, but the castle being held onto by the king, there's bound to be trouble. However, Guy could never anticipate the extent to which he will get embroiled in the royal brothers' quarrels, or how often. Who would have anticipated an English king besieging his own castle? Once more, Guy is in the thick of it and never more so than when the cost has to be counted.

Who knew that doing your duty could be so dangerous?