First published in 1888, &quot;The Black Arrow&quot; (<i>AKA The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses</i>) is a historical&nbsp;adventure novel&nbsp;and a&nbsp;romance novel&nbsp;by&nbsp;Robert Louis Stevenson.&nbsp;This exciting adventure story is full of intrigue, suspense, hair-breadth escapes, and desperate fights, but It also contains an unusual love story. &quot;The Black Arrow&quot;&nbsp;offers valuable insights into history and rates among the best novels available about the fifteenth-century English civil conflict, the <i>War of the Roses</i>.<br /><br />Originally serialized in a periodical of boys&#39; adventure fiction, &quot;The Black Arrow&quot; is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man&#39;s journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England&#39;s War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, <b><i>The Black Arrow</i></b>. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England&#39;s crown threatens to topple around him.