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Nat Bell knows the land he farms. He knows its weather, its animals and the hard work required to make a life there. On his Northumbrian farm, his family’s future feels inseparable from the ground beneath their feet.
But England is changing, and the revolution has little patience for people who refuse to change with it.
A new government has come to power with a vision of a better society. To its supporters, it offers hope. To the Bells, its demands become an intrusion into a life they have built and intend to keep. As the distance between those two worlds narrows, political conviction gives way to something far more personal.
When the regime’s enforcers wrong his family, Nat fights back with a brutality that draws him into the struggle for England itself. His determination to defend his home becomes a hunger for revenge, binding his fate to that of a leader fighting to preserve the ideals that brought him to power.
As civil war spreads through the border counties and an independent Scotland enters the conflict, Nat’s daughter, Amber, faces a world increasingly shaped by her father’s choices.
How much can he destroy before he destroys what he meant to protect?