Whyte, Jack: The Fort at River's Bend

The Fort at River's Bend is the fifth book in Jack Whyte's saga of the creation of King Arthur's Britain

Merlyn Britannicus, leader of the colony known as Camulod, is faced with the task of educating his young charge, Arthur, future King of the Britons. Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt is thwarted, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood companions Gwin, Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr, to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort far from Camulod. Once there, Merlyn realizes it's time for Arthur to become worthy of the sword he is destined to wield later in his life-the mighty Excalibur.

But beyond their idyllic hiding place, forces threaten the tenuous peace of Camulod. In Cambria, the death of Arthur's father Uther has left his people leaderless, and in Cornwall, Merlyn's enemy Peter Ironhair is gathering forces to destroy all Merlyn holds dear.

And Merlyn himself is struggling, because in order to make his dream of a united Britain real, he must put the person he loves most in the world in mortal danger-he and Arthur must return to Camulod.

Jack Whyte is the author of sixteen novels of historical fiction, including the 10-novel cycle of A Dream of Eagles (the Camulod Chronicles in the USA), set in post-Roman Britain in the late third and early fourth centuries, the Knights Templar Trilogy, set in the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, and The Guardians Trilogy, set in 14th-century Scotland during the Wars of Independence. All of his novels are available worldwide and have been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages. By 2009, he had sold more than a million books in Canada alone.