Roland Inness is a peasant boy with an unusual talent—and a secret. He has learned the art of making a longbow and the skill to use it with deadly accuracy. Why must this be kept hidden? The Normans rule England with their armored knights and a well-aimed longbow can pierce that armor. Possession of the weapon is a hanging offense and when Roland takes the wrong deer on the wrong Lord’s land he has to flee for his life. His flight will take him from the high hills of the English Midlands to the wild frontier with Wales and on to the court of Richard the Lionheart. Along the way he is hunted by a paid killer, aided by a strange monk named Tuck, and taken in by a gruff Norman knight, who values his skill with the bow. That skill and his courage will be sorely tested as he fights to earn the trust of his new master. As King Richard celebrates his coronation, Roland faces old enemies he thought he had left behind and must test his skill at a royal archery tournament against the greatest bowmen in England, to include the favorite, Sir Robin of Loxley. A mix of history, myth and high adventure, Longbow follows the journey of Roland Inness as he seeks to find a place for himself in a restive kingdom and become a man in a brutal age. It is the first book in The Saga of Roland Inness . The Saga is a story of courage, loyalty, honor and treachery. Most of all, it is a story of high adventure set in a time so filled with drama it has spawned legends that fascinate people to this day. It is the time of Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshall, legendary figures all--some real and some fictional. The first four books in the saga— Longbow, Warbow, The Broken Realm and The Ransomed Crown tell the coming-of-age story of the young archer. A Prince of Wales , the fifth in the series, follows Roland Inness as he leads the legendary Invalid Company into Wales to help Llywelyn the Great win a throne. The sixth book in the series, Declan O'Duinne , takes Roland and Declan to Ireland, where they are plunged into a new Norman conquest. The seventh and final book in the Saga, A Question of Honour was published in October, 2019. If you would like to know more about the author or get updates on new books, visit his webpage at www.waynegrantbooks.com or the Longbow Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Longbowbooks/ . “An action-adventure set in 12th-century England, this is an appealing read filled with bows and arrows, sword fights, and the like. Roland, “taller than most of his age and sturdily built,” is forced to flee his home in Kinder Scout after the horrible murder of his father, Rolf, at the behest of the Earl’s son…By celebrating Roland’s courage and bravery, the author gives audiences an engaging hero they can easily root for.” ~ Publishers Weekly​ Longbow is the first book in the Saga of Roland Inness series.  I actually began telling this story to my two sons when they were middle and elementary school ages, but as they demanded more adventures from my hero Roland, I found it too hard to spin a coherent tale of this length right from my head.  So I began to write the stories down and it became a bit like an old Saturday matinee serial.  After several months of weekly installments, I went back and looked at what I had done and it struck me that I had the "bones" of a book.  From that point onward, I began to actually write the story of Roland Inness and his longbow as a novel.  What followed turned into a best-selling seven book series . So come join the adventure! Wayne Grant grew up in a tiny cotton town in rural Louisiana where hunting, fishing and farming are a way of life. Between chopping cotton, dove hunting and Little League ball he developed a love of great adventure stories like Call It Courage and Kidnapped.Like most southern boys he saw the military as an honorable and adventurous career, so it was a natural step for him to attend and graduate from West Point. He just missed Vietnam, but found that life as a 2nd LT in an army broken by that war was not what he wanted. After tours in Germany and Korea, he returned to Louisiana and civilian life. Through it all he retained his love of great adventure writing and when he had two sons he began telling them stories before bedtime. Those stories became his first novel, Longbow, the first in the best-selling seven-book series, The Saga of Roland Inness.  Come join the adventure!