A darkly twisted psychological
thriller exploring the legend of Lady Godiva’s naked ride.
Having survived a grave
illness to become one of 11th-century England’s wealthiest landowners, Godgyfu
of Coventry (Lady Godiva) remains forever grateful to the town whose patron
saint worked such miracles. She vows to rebuild Coventry’s abbey and better the
lives of its townsfolk. But the wider kingdom is descending into political
turmoil, and her husband, Earl Leofric, starts to break under the strain.
Godgyfu finds her own plans unravelling the moment she meets Thomas, a
Benedictine novice with perverse secret desires. Three lives become dangerously
entangled in a shocking web of ambition, voyeuristic lust, and horrid
obsession. Can Godgyfu escape the monk’s menacing wiles and Leofric’s betrayals
to secure her future in a changing kingdom? Perhaps, but first, she faces a dark
test of wills leading her perilously closer to a legendary ride...
Trigger Warnings:
Sexual situations, psychological abuse, violence, brief
references to suicide.
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Christopher M. Cevasco
Christopher M. Cevasco was born in New
Jersey and spent a memorable decade in Brooklyn, New York, but he feels most at
home in medieval England, Normandy, Norway, and Greenland. A lifelong passion for
history and fiction led him to earn degrees in Medieval Studies and English and
later to embark upon a writing career that merges these two loves.
Chris was the founding editor of the
award-winning Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction
from 2003 to 2009. His own short stories appear in such venues as Black
Static, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Distant Echoes (Corazon Books, UK), and
the Prime Books anthologies Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War
and Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages.
A long-time member of the Historical
Novel Society, Chris currently serves on the society's North American
conference board as registration chair for the upcoming 2023 conference in San
Antonio, Texas.
Chris lives with his wife and their two
children in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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