{"id":5103,"date":"2026-03-12T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:14:35","slug":"duel-of-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"Duel of Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What starts as a simple mission quickly turns deadly in the Morrisons\u2019 latest chronicle of the life of excommunicated knight Gerard Fox and his wife, Willa. They want to deliver news to noblewoman Madelena about her brother\u2019s death, but others want to keep her from learning the truth as long as they can. Madelena\u2019s sister-in-law, Helvira, plans to seize power once her husband passes away. She\u2019s having a secret affair with the Vizier Nayar, and a letter Gerard and Willa are planning to deliver reveals Nayar\u2019s treachery with Helvira. If the truth of their affair were discovered, it would get them killed, so the two of them will do anything to stop Willa and Gerard from revealing the truth to Madelena. The Vizier has a collection of wild animals he uses to take out his enemies, and if Gerard and Willa are not careful, they will end up on the menu. <strong>Spain in the 1350s comes to glorious life in this non-stop action adventure, and the combination of history, culture, and romance will satisfy any reader who enjoys a great, suspenseful read.<\/strong> Though it\u2019s the fourth in the series, it\u2019s not necessary to have read the previous three to dig this one. But you\u2019ll want to get them after finishing <strong><em>Duel of Beasts<\/em><\/strong>. Just stay away from the animal cages<em>.\u2014Jeff Ayers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What starts as a simple mission quickly turns deadly in the Morrisons\u2019 latest chronicle of the life of excommunicated knight Gerard Fox and his wife, Willa. They want to deliver&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[120,280,54,170,137,51,279],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-christian","tag-europe","tag-historical","tag-medieval","tag-spain","tag-thrillers","tag-war-military"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Beast-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Beast-400x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff Ayers","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}