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Kingdom's Call

Book:

4

Series:

Kingdom Series

Author:

Chuck Black

Publisher:

Multnomah

Language:

English

Pages:

160

Followed By:

Kingdom's Quest

Media Type:

Print

Kingdom's Call is the fourth book in the series and spans the time from the crucifixion of Jesus to the conversion of Paul. The central character Sir Gavin. He embarks on a mission to eliminate the “Followers” of the Stranger from the Kingdom, but The Prince has another plan for him.

Plot[]

A sworn enemy of The Prince vows to eliminate his Followers. Until The Prince saves his life...


For generations the Noble Knights have been in service to the King. Following a strict code of conduct, they preserve the peace in Chessington, the King’s chosen city, and rule its citizenry. Sir Gavin is a young and promising Noble Knight, devoted to King and Code.

Then a peasant disrupts the tranquility of Chessington, brazenly challenging the Code while claiming to be the son of the King–a Prince. When it is learned that he is actively training a force of men in defiance of the law, the stranger is arrested and executed.

But his Followers continue to defy the Code, and Sir Gavin swears to destroy this threat to Chessington–until he himself is grievously wounded in battle. As he faces his own death, Gavin is saved by someone who will transform his heart and change his life...

Journey to Arrethtrae, where the King and His Son implement a bold plan to save their kingdom; where courage, faith, and loyalty stand tall in the face of opposition; where good will not bow to evil–and one brave man stands against the Dark Knight.

Chapters[]

  • Prologue - Herald of the Prince
  • Chapter 1 - A Noble Cause
  • Chapter 2 - Treachery!
  • Chapter 3 - A Peasant's Threat
  • Chapter 4 - Troubled Heart
  • Chapter 5 - The Silence of a Stranger
  • Chapter 6 - Curse of a Charlatan
  • Chapter 7 - The Precipice of Peril
  • Chapter 8 - A Knight's Crusade
  • Chapter 9 - Desperate
  • Chapter 10 - Dark Steel
  • Chapter 11 - Between Two Worlds
  • Chapter 12 - No More a Knight
  • Chapter 13 - Undaunted Quest
  • Epilogue - Chessington's Hope

Summary[]

Cedric of Chessington continues his tales of the Prince and His knights with the story of one whom he holds to be a far greater knight than himself, even though he was once a fierce enemy of the Prince...

Gavin of Chessington is the latest in a line of Noble Knights, the protege of Lord Kifus and one of the top-ranked knights in the order. Following a fierce battle with marauding Outdwellers, he is invited by Kifus to visit Kifus' sister Leisel and pays a visit to the chamber of the Chessington palace where the scroll of the Code is kept. Like all the Noble Knights, he is disturbed and angered when the Prince declares Himself before the people of Chessington and defeats Kifus and two other knights in a duel. However, the wise knight Sir Camden discourages hasty action, believing that "the stranger" and His Followers will cease to be a threat if left alone long enough.

However, Noble Knights Braden and Demus, tasked with observing the growing movement, warn that the supposed traitor and blasphemer is only gaining in influence, such that the people of Chessington both respect and admire Him. The pair and Jayden are sent to apprehend or kill the stranger, though Gavin notices some hesitation on the part of Demus and confronts him. Demus, after finding himself at the Prince's mercy and being spared by Him, becomes convinced that the Noble Knights are wrong to antagonize Him. He discourages Gavin from attempting to confront the Prince, and later opposes the suggestion that the Prince is aligned with the Dark Knight.

When the Noble Knights determine to take the Prince and kill Him, Demus refuses to go along with it, despite Gavin's warnings that he will lose everything by his decision. The Noble Knights take the Prince into custody and question Him, later hanging Him in the city square. Immediately afterwards, Gavin finds the doors to the Chamber of the Code broken open. They are initially unconcerned when His body disappears, convinced that His Followers will die out without their leader. However, it shortly becomes clear that the Followers are only gaining in numbers and strength.

Gavin is tasked with helping put down the Followers, and only becomes more determined after one named Severin, formerly the servant of a Noble Knight, speaks against them and is killed. With authority given by Kifus, he begins hunting down and imprisoning the Followers, even going beyond Chessington in his efforts to prevent them from gaining influence in other areas of the kingdom. After one raid, Gavin witnesses an Outdweller girl being menaced by a pair of Shadow Warriors who have murdered her parents. However, acting on his mandate as a Noble Knight, he refuses to become involved as she is taken away to be sold into slavery.

Despite his increasingly harsh tactics against the Followers, Gavin is unable either to stomp out the movement or to find inner peace as his actions draw further from the spirit of the Code he seeks to honor. Eventually, while outside Chessington on a hunt for more Followers, he meets a group of Shadow Warriors led by one named Devinoux. Grievously wounded, he is unexpectedly saved by the Prince Himself, who then directs him to seek the aid of the Followers. After being treated for a time by one named Chadwick, he is taken to Cresthaven, home of Weston and his family, after a heated pursuit by the Noble Knights.

Under the care of Weston's family, particularly his children Addy and Keaton, Gavin begins to recover, though he is burdened by both the guilt of his actions against the Followers and the apparent uselessness of his now crippled sword arm. He learns that his horse Triumph, unruly since his campaign against the Followers began, is not from Arrethtrae, and recounts to Weston how he received the horse as a gift from a mysterious stranger. Nias, a Knight of the Prince who previously brought healing salve which saved an unconscious Gavin's life, arrives with word that he is to travel to the Crimson River. In spite of the dangers and his bad arm, Gavin takes his leave and travels into the Forest of Renault.

While traveling, Gavin and Triumph are attacked by a Caralynx, which poisons Triumph with a claw scratch before Gavin is able to slay it. The pair are then found by a troop of Silent Warriors, two of whom are left to deal with the dying horse while the others take charge of Gavin. From them, Gavin learns that Triumph is one of the Kasian Horses from the Kingdom Across the Sea, and that the Dark Knight seeks to kill Gavin because of the Prince's interest in him. At the Crimson River, Gavin once again meets the Prince, who offers him forgiveness and the chance to begin life anew as one of the Knights of the Prince.

Through the Prince's teaching, Gavin becomes a devoted follower with a true understanding of the Code. Much to his surprise, the Prince calls him to take his newfound knowledge not to the people of Chessington, but to the Outdwellers. Having trained Gavin to fight wielding his sword in his left arm, the Prince completes his calling by giving him a new name: Gavinaugh of Arrethtrae.

Cedric concludes his narrative there, but with the promise of more to come...

Characters[]

Characters
Cedric
Gavinaugh
Kifus
Leisel
Quinn (mentioned)
The King (mentioned)
Maggie (not named)
Jayden
Camden
Demus
Braden
Lucius
Bremrick
Rolson
Oran
Severin
Leinad (mentioned)
Fairos (mentioned)
Kergon (mentioned)
William
Keanna (not named)
Hanan
Devinoux
Vicis
The Prince
Chadwick
Benson
Weston
Keaton
Adelaide (aka Addy)
Marie
Nias
Brock
Trustan
Lindan
Porunth

Groups[]

Animals[]

Creatures[]

Locations[]

  • Arrethtrae
    • Boundary Mountains
    • Brimshire Plains
    • Cartelbrook
    • Chessington Valley
    • Cresthaven
    • Crimson River
    • Denrith
    • Eagle Pass
    • Forest of Renault
    • Nyland
    • Red Canyon
    • Wickmere River
  • Great Sea
  • Kingdom Across the Sea


Information[]

  • • Released on May 15th 2007
  • • 160 pages
  • • Subjects: Youth/Youth Interests/Teen Fiction
  • • Interior illustrations by Marcella Johnson
  • • Cover Design: James Hall
  • • 13 Chapters (15 counting the Prologue and Epilogue)


Dedication[]

"To the men that mentored, counseled, encouraged, and prayed for me. Thank you, my brothers!"


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