The Battle of Hackham Heath

Its place in Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years

The Battle of Hackham Heath is book 2 in the Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years series. It follows The Tournament at Gorlan. See the full Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years reading order.

A two-book prequel duology telling the story of Halt -- the gruff, unshakeable Ranger who mentors Will Treaty in the main Ranger's Apprentice series -- decades earlier, as a young man himself entering the Ranger Corps and fighting in the civil war that shaped the kingdom of Araluen he later serves. Where the main series is Will's coming-of-age story, this duology is Halt's, filling in the history the original books only ever gestured at: his origins, his early partnership with the young Crowley (who becomes the…