New World Rising Books in Order

New World Rising moves Robyn Young from crusader battlefields into the late fifteenth century, when the Wars of the Roses are giving way to the early Renaissance and the first push toward a wider world. The books follow Jack Wynter, a bastard son, soldier and reluctant seeker after family secrets. He can fight, but much of the danger comes from courts, dynasties and information that powerful people want hidden.

The series opens with Sons of the Blood. Jack is in Seville, guarding a locked chest for his father, Sir Thomas Vaughan, when news arrives that Vaughan has been arrested for treason. That sends Jack back to England at exactly the wrong moment. Edward IV is dead, old Yorkist and Lancastrian grudges are waking up again, and Richard of Gloucester is moving toward the throne. Jack soon learns that his father's fall and his own uncertain place in the world are tied to a much larger conspiracy.

Blood ties are not much comfort here.

One of the pleasures of the series is the way history keeps widening around Jack. England matters, of course, but these books are not locked inside one court or one campaign. Spain, Florence and the Medici world come into view, and so do trade routes, maps and the sense that Europe is tilting toward something new. In Court of Wolves, Jack follows the trail to Florence, where politics, money and learning are tangled together. His half-brother Harry Vaughan, bitter and dangerous in a very different way, keeps the family story burning inside the larger historical sweep.

The ongoing tension of the series comes from Jack's status. He is close enough to power to be used by it, but never secure enough to trust it. He wants answers about his father and his own future, yet every step toward the truth puts him deeper into other people's designs. That makes these books less about one straight military campaign and more about survival in a world built on shifting loyalties.

The tone sits somewhere between adventure story and political thriller. There are fights, escapes and battlefield moments, but there is just as much energy in private meetings, coded messages and the slow reveal of what one hidden object or lost map might mean. Young is especially interested in the clash between an old medieval order and a new age of merchants, scholars, explorers and opportunists.

If you want historical fiction that moves from English dynastic struggle into a wider European story, New World Rising is built for that. It gives you intrigue, family rivalry and real historical change at the same time. Jack Wynter is a good guide because he is always on the edge of belonging, which means he sees both the glamour of power and the damage it leaves behind.