Wayne Grant grew up in a tiny cotton town in rural Louisiana where hunting, fishing and farming are a way of life. If you would like to know more about the author or get updates on new books, visit his webpage at or the Longbow Facebook page. The sixth book in the series, Declan O'Duinne, set in Ireland, was released in November, 2018 and a new Roland Inness adventure will be published in late summer, 2019. 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 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. Can Declan and his fellow knight, Roland Inness, help save what’s left of free Ireland? The Anglo-Normans relentlessly expand their Irish domains while the Irish kings fight amongst themselves.
He’s been ten years gone, but some things never change. But bloody strife rages in the north of Ireland, drawing Declan O’Duinne back to his homeland. The final book in the series, The Ransomed Crown puts Roland at the center of the struggle to save Richard's crown while he is imprisoned by the Holy Roman Emperor and his brother John seeks to usurp the throne.With King Richard making war on the French and Prince Llywelyn consolidating power in Wales, peace prevails across England and the Welsh Marches. It is followed by Warbow, which takes Roland and his companions to the Holy Land on King Richard's Crusade, and The Broken Realm, which tells the story of his return to England to find a country in the midst of a civil war. Longbow is the first novel in The Saga of Roland Inness. That skill and his courage are sorely tested as he fights to earn the trust of his new master.
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 amazing skill with the bow.
With one shot the 14 year old peasant boy is launched on a desperate flight that takes him from the mountains of Derbyshire to the wild frontier of Wales and on to the court of Richard the Lionheart.
Worse yet, he uses his longbow, a weapon outlawed and suppressed by the Norman overlords of England. Roland Inness desperately needs meat for his starving family, but he takes the wrong deer on the wrong nobleman's land.
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