Finalist
The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year
The Historical Fiction Book of the Year
Early Medieval
Travel back in
time to late Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon Britain where Alfred the Great rules
with a benevolent hand while the Danish King rules peacefully within the
boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes, and scholars from throughout the
civilized world flock to Britannia’s shores to study at the King’s Court School
at Winchester.
Enter Concordia,
a beautiful noble woman whose family is favored by the king. Vain, willful, and
admired, but ambitious and cunning, Concordia is not willing to accept her
fate. She is betrothed to the valiant warrior, Brantson, but sees herself as
far too young to lay in the bedchamber of an older suitor. She wants to see the wonders of the world, embracing everything in it; preferably, but dangerously,
at the side of Thayer, the exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred’s court and
ignites her yearning passions.
Concordia
manipulates her besotted husband into taking her to Rome, but her ship is
captured by bloodthirsty pirates, and the seafarers protecting her are ruthlessly
slain to a man. As she awaits her fate in the Moorish captain’s bed, by sheer
chance, she discovers that salvation is at hand in the gilded court of a
Saracen nobleman.
While awaiting
rescue, Concordia finds herself at the center of intrigue, plots, blackmail,
betrayal and the vain desires of two egotistical brothers, each willing to die
for her favor. Using only feminine cunning, Concordia must defend her honor
while plotting her escape as she awaits deliverance, somewhere inside steamy,
unconquered Muslim Hispania.
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