a hero-king corrupted by his own success. a renegade sorceress fighting to remake the world. And a young knight with a dangerous secret. This bold new interpretation of the Green Knight poem remixes well-known Arthurian legends to tell a surprising story. After an encounter with the sadistic Green Knight, a desperate young Gawain gives his solemn word to serve a death sentence—to be carried out in one year. But during that time, he meets a young squire in need of his guidance, a passionate new lover, and his adoring but psychopathic brother Mordred. Meanwhile beneath his armor, he conceals an unresolved secret that could break the chivalric code all to pieces. Now, with new reasons to live, can he escape his fate—without betraying his word? Meanwhile, Arthur's kingdom is falling around his ears, Merlin questions his role in the collapse, and Nyneveh works behind the scenes (literally) to try and topple the very foundations of monarchy and rulership. A YEAR TO LIVE is a novel that both reveres and rewrites Arthurian characters and stories. If you like old stories with new twists, you’ll enjoy this sometimes humorous, sometimes absurd and always heartfelt novel about uncertain souls seeking their way in a strange but familiar world.