In 1524, in what’s now Germany, thousands of peasants revolt against the severe treatment by their aristocratic overlords. Agnes, the child of one of these overlords, is not an average sixteenth-century young lady. She won’t put on dresses and spends additional time with her family pet falcon than she will in seeking to attract potential suitors. Actually, there is one man who passions her: Mathis, a years as a child friend, whom she can’t ever marry because of his lowly birth. But the circumstance about The Castle of Kings adjustments dramatically when a rogue knight episodes Agnes, Mathis shoots the knight to save her existence, and the two are forced to go on the run together, into the midst from the raging peasants’ war.

Over the next 2 yrs, as Agnes and Mathis travel the countryside, are each captured by and escape from various factions from the war, participate in massive battles, and make new friends both noble and peasant, in addition they, of course, fall in love. In the meantime, Agnes’ falcon finds a mysterious ring, and Agnes starts having strange dreams that lead the two lovers to revelations about their put in place the world and in the growing German states.

USING THE Castle of Kings, Oliver Pötzsch has written a historical epic that calls to mind Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the planet earth and Bernard Cornwell’s Agincourt. “The primary story of Trifels Castle and the German Peasants’ War, with appearances with a few historical figures and accurate details of medieval lifestyle and weaponry, is fairly fascinating…The storyplot reads like Princess Bride with serious pirates, or The Count of Monte Cristo matches Snow White…Entertaining.”-Booklist