Dimensions
155 x 230 x 35mm
Love versus treason - a novel of power and intrigue in Richard III's England.
January 1483. Heloise Ballaster longs to escape her tyrannical father who hates her "otherness" - her visions of the future. But what man would want to marry a girl with such cursed witch's hair? Because of her father's recklessness, Heloise finds herself fighting a duel with a hostile stranger, married at sword point, and then lonely and friendless on a castle drawbridge in Wales, where the English are not welcome.
Miles Rushden, her defiant bridegroom, has been burning for the chance to make his friend, the Duke of Buckingham, a powerbroker in the affairs of England. The last thing he needs is a witchbride foisted onto him.
In this new and hazardous world, Heloise is determined to survive even if it means a dangerous deception. Resourceful, spirited and fey, she slowly wins the grudging admiration of the Welsh and the heart of the neglected little son of the high-handed duke. Before she can finally prove her worth to Miles, the news of King Edward IV's death throws England and Wales into imminent civil war.
Journeying to London, Heloise and Miles are snared on different sides in the political intrigue that accompanies the mighty Richard of Gloucester's seizure of the crown. Miles gradually falls in love with his fey bride and begins to see that Buckingham's vaulting ambition is insatiable. Torn between love and loyalty, how can Miles keep Heloise safe and avoid a cruel death for treason?
And Wales is waiting, seething with rebellion, ready to destroy them all.
