Jack Bergen
The Frysian Wolf
“Forty three boys in my unit. Three came home.”
Sent to war as a boy by the governor of Vryehelm, Jack Bergen marched out with forty three others to fight for Britannia and was one of three who came home. He found nothing waiting for him there, and so he turned to the kind of work that pays desperate men, bringing to it one rule, that no one is harmed who does not have to be. Now a single job has placed the governor's own daughter in his hands, and Jack must learn whether his rule can survive the men he works with.
Bonds
The Chronicle
Forty Three
Jack was too young for anyone to ask whether he wished to go. Governor Adamaris gave Britannia the soldiers it demanded, and Jack's unit of forty three boys was among them. Three came home. He has never learned why he was one of them, and he has never forgiven the man who sent them.
The Return
There was no place in Vryehelm for those who came back. Jack fell in with others the war had broken, among them a soldier named Jason, and together they took what work they could find. He became the one who made the plans and kept the others in line, and his first rule was always the same. No one gets hurt who does not have to.
The Governor's Daughter
When a buyer offered a fortune for Amicia Adamaris, alive and unharmed, Jack took the job. He told himself it was only money. But the girl in his van was the daughter of the man who had sent forty boys to their graves, and not every man on his crew shared his rule.
Other men who came home stopped counting. Jack has not.