This gripping historical novel brings to life the story of Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Harold's rise to power, from a member of a prominent family with ties to Cnut the Great to a powerful earl, is chronicled in vivid detail. When King Edward the Confessor dies without an heir, the Witenagemot chooses Harold to succeed him, making him the first English monarch to be crowned in Westminster Abbey.