Tales of the Lawless Land

About the Tales of the Lawless Land series

Tales of the Lawless Land is a medieval adventure series co-written by Boyd Morrison and his sister, playwright and screenwriter Beth Morrison, set in 13th-century England during the unrest surrounding King John and the Magna Carta. It marks a genre departure for Boyd Morrison, moving from present-day techno-thrillers into straight historical fiction in the Robin Hood-adjacent outlaw-adventure tradition — ordinary people pushed outside the law by an unjust system, banding together in England's forests and using their wits against corrupt nobility and church authority.

The series opens with The Lawless Land (2022) and continues through The Last True Templar (2023), The White Fortress (2025), and Duel of Beasts (2026), expanding the world and cast introduced in the first book while following a serialized story arc rather than fully standalone cases. The siblings' collaboration — Beth Morrison's background in dramatic storytelling paired with Boyd Morrison's structural, plot-engineering instincts from his thriller career — has been credited by both as the source of the series' pacing. As of this catalogue's most recent update, the series remains active, with Duel of Beasts as its most recent entry.