Walk with Peril

Set in 1415, Walk with Peril follows Robert Fairfield, a young Englishman whose convictions put his life at risk on the eve of Henry V's French campaign. Marked "dangerous for his religion," Robert must navigate spies, informers, and the tightening noose of royal policy even as the kingdom prepares for war. Jackson braids a tense, intimate story of conscience with the sweep of history, carrying the reader from parish greens and London streets to the muddy roads that lead the English host toward its rendezvous with fate at Agincourt.

Jackson's gift is moral suspense. She shows how private loyalties collide with public duty, how a whispered prayer can be as perilous as open treason, and how ordinary men and women are forced to choose when the crown insists on unity at any cost. Period detail—market talk, church ritual, camp routine—grounds every scene, while the plot tightens around Robert's secret and the inexorable march of the army across the Channel.

 More than a battlefield tale, Walk with Peril is about the courage to live truthfully in an age that punishes doubt. By the time arrows darken the sky and mud grips the fallen, the novel has earned its title: every step has been a step with peril—of conscience, of love, and of faith—toward one of England's most storied victories.