William Doyle never wanted to become a legend. He wanted a home.
After the Crown destroys his family, William grows up beneath the protection of the Forest Brotherhood, learning how to survive a kingdom where truth belongs to whoever carries the larger banner. Years later, the past his parents died protecting resurfaces-along with ancient Oathbound relics and evidence that the history of the realm was built on a lie.
Suddenly, William is no longer just a fugitive.
Hunted by the brilliant and relentless Royal Harrier Walter Gage, he is drawn deeper into forgotten sanctuaries, buried battlefields, monstrous legends, and secrets the Crown has killed to keep hidden. Along the way, ordinary people begin looking to William for the one thing he never intended to become: their protector.
But every person who needs him pulls him farther from Edith Rook, the woman he loves.
Edith does not need a hero. She needs William to come home.
As grief, responsibility, vengeance, and love begin demanding different things from the same man, William is forced toward a choice with no clean answer. Because sometimes saving everyone else means losing the one person you were trying to build a life with.
DOYLE: Caught Between Love and Duty is a dark, character-driven fantasy of ancient weapons, buried history, brutal choices, dry humor, revenge, and a love that may not survive the weight of becoming necessary to everyone.
