The Hedge Knight

A century before the War of the Five Kings, the lowborn hedge knight Dunk arrives at a tournament at Ashford Meadow with nothing but his late master's oversized armor and a boy called Egg for a squire. When Dunk strikes a prince for beating a puppeteer, he must fight a trial of seven against the full fury of House Targaryen, discovering the boy at his side is more than he seems. The first Dunk and Egg novella, set in the Seven Kingdoms generations before A Game of Thrones.