Description
England, God’s year 1194, soldiers are everywhere yet Diana’s impetuous brother takes the garrison to fight for King Richard the
Lionheart at Nottingham. With the battlements undermanned, Lady Diana is horrified to discover her brother has claimed lands held in trust for Lord Montclaire as his own before being killed in battle, leaving her in possession of a dangerous inheritance.
Barricaded in her own chapel against the attack of the mercenaries returning her brother’s body, her problems are not diminished
by the arrival of Lord Montclaire, as yet unaware of his grievance.
The entire court is swept to war as King Richard the Lionheart exacts a swift revenge against the French king, his mortal enemy. Under threat from the king’s mercenaries, the French enemy, and increasingly
reliant upon Montclaire, Diana is propelled from one dangerous situation to another – both physically and emotionally. As the politics of the time are unveiled, so are the plots which swirl about the king, the master puppeteer. Meanwhile, Montclaire wants his lands and soon finds he wants Diana too, but isforced to wait upon the King’s pleasure.
This book weaves the story of a little known part of Lionheart’s life and the lives of two of his subjects into a glorious tapestryof mediaeval life.