oh my God, that was epic!probably three or four times longer than the usual books I read.after about 25% into the book, when it looked as if the h and H were about to get their HEA, I thought that there was no way it could be another 70% left of the book. no way it would be able to hold my intere...
If I remember correctly this is the first of Kathryn Le Veque's books that I read. I fell in love with it very quickly. I have loved every one of her books since. I am madly collecting them so I don't miss one. :) It is a very long book, which is a major plus, IMO. Gaston is wonderful. Remingto...
Another captivating medieval romance from Kathryn Le Veque! I loved THE WHITE LORD OF WELLESBOURNE! I became addicted to Kathryn Le Veque’s novels the moment I read her first book. I can never get enough! In this story, the hero is a tender knight and the heroine the perfect lady. I loved her two...
They had taken her with nothing but the clothes on her back, in the heavy yellow brocade gown she had been wearing for almost a week now. The thin sleeves were torn and the voluminous skirt was soiled to the core. She used to love the garment; now she hated it. There were spots of Kenneth’s blood...
It was late. She didn’t know why she felt so tired lately. She pulled on a clean gown and made her way down the stairs to the hall. She found Alice eating at a table, so she trudged over and sat down.“Good morn to you, Alice.”Alice turned to Maddie. “Oh, my dear, you do not look well. In fact, yo...
It was cold and damp, as a squall had passed through only minutes before. Everything was sopping, struggling to dry out as the clouds cleared and the sun appeared. In the bailey of Canterbury Castle, a man dressed in heavy robes and a woolen scarf around his neck emerged from the big square keep ...
in reflection, I should have known what the outcome would be. As opposing armies clash with a mighty cheer, so it seemed that I should also clash with those I had once served ….” The Chronicles of Sir Sean de Lara 1206 - 1215 A.D. CHAPTER TWELVE...
After that, it had passed to their son, Richard, and then to his daughter, the Lady Gray de Montfort Serroux who had eventually married Braxton de Nerra.Upon their marriage, De Nerra had given the castle to his step-daughter, Lady Gray’s daughter Brooke and her husband Sir Dallas Aston as a weddi...
Brooke whispered harshly to Edgar. They were sitting in a pitched tent, watching over a sleeping Geoff until Gray returned. But it had been quite some time and neither Gray nor Braxton had returned. Moreover, Sir Dallas was staring at Brooke from his perch several feet away. He had the strangest...
It was just after Lammas Day, a holy holiday celebrating the wheat harvest and usually a holiday where the nobles spent days celebrating with ale and rich foods. It was a festival ripe with debauchery and Jonas was anticipating a host of wild stories as the nobles began to infiltrate the church j...
In the sky, I can clearly see, Your loving eyes gazing back at me. —Iseobeau de Shera de Wolfe, 15th c. Wellesbourne Castle Warwickshire Wellesbourne Castle was a little over seven miles south of Warwick Castle, seat of the Earl of Warwick, and the history between Warwick and Wellesbourne had alw...
As his party was saddled up, secured, and ready to depart, the most difficult part of all was coming. He had to tell his youngest child farewell and he wasn’t at all sure he could accomplish that and not break down like an idiot. In the cold and misty morning following the rather eventful wedding...
Rain, mists, damp winds and all, she and Genisa were planted in the assigned du Bonne box just after sunrise, eagerly awaiting the commencement of the joust. The three du Bonne brothers had escorted the anxious ladies to the field, convinced the women would proceed without them or not. Therefore...
Jasper had gone through his obligatory sneezes after entering his wife’s pungent-smelling chamber, now standing near the door in his usual place whilst Rosamund remained over on her bed, her usual place. He could see her outline through the sheer panels of curtain, silhouetted by a taper on the o...
Stephen and his men had spent all night upon the walls shoving back ladders of Scots attempting to breach the castle. Stephen had received a gash to his face when an enemy sword tip inadvertently struck him, barely missing his eye, but was otherwise unharmed. He had spent nearly all his time at...
Having never seen Babylon Castle from the interior, Neville was more than impressed with the structure. From its imposing gray-stoned walls to its towering keep, Warwick could see how the fortress gained its reputation based purely on what he was seeing. All of it was quite impressive. &nbs...
The lists containing the crowd were small and hastily constructed, and they were already full of people. There was a section for the Earl of Carlisle’s family, now full of Toby and her five children – Roman, daughter Catherine, the rambunctious twins Dylan and Alex, and baby Sophie. There ...
An hour and several minutes after the incoming army had been sighted before dawn, approaching Spelthorne across the pre-dawn fields like a tide of ants, Jorrin de Bretagne, garrison commander at Sherborne Castle, was standing at Lucien’s portcullis. Now, the matter of Henry’s banners was explaine...
The green, lush lands and softly rolling hills. When the three de Cleveley ships docked with their load of one thousand men, horses, wagons and supplies, Kirk found himself frantic to reach Wicklow. But it was a three hour march by his calculations and the army set forth at a strong pace. Niles a...
It was an ambitious piece with butterflies and flowers and as she sat in the mid-morning sun, she began to realize she’s hardly seen Tevin since their return two days before. Certainly, she had seen him during meal time and they’d spent the nights wrapped in each other’s arms but for the mos...
Edward de Wolfe stuck his head into de Lohr’s solar where the man had been working over some documents. “Come quickly!” Startled up from his desk, Christopher made haste from the solar, following Edward who was showing distinct signs of excitement, into the great hall of L...
The cloying stink only served to fortify his mood; having ridden from Shrewsbury to the Welsh border in a little over a day, he was understandably fatigued. But he had been compelled to obey the invitation cast by none other than Owen Glendower, and even now he sat with restrained anticipation of...
It was a truly massive place that could house an enormous army. So far, he had six hundred men from Bolingbroke to command plus the two hundred personal retainers he had brought with him. With an eight hundred man army at his disposal, it was an impressive sight. When he ...
The dark-stoned walls were very tall, and somewhat foreboding. As Chad and Alessandria crossed the drawbridge and passed through a narrow tunnel, the bailey opened up on the other side to expose the underbelly of the castle. It was a tight fit, all of it. The keep, at least three stories, was att...
Blakesley was bordering on livid. “You guys are seriously telling me that this entire property has to be re-surveyed? That’s a bunch of crap.”The archaeologist from the State of California could see how upset she was. He was just trying to be truthful.“I’m just telling you what our engineers are...
With the snow and darkness, she had lost all sense of time. More than that, it was increasingly difficult to follow any given path. The snow was completely obliterating it. So she followed what she thought was the road as the snow built up and the horse began to tire. She had stopped looking behi...
The sun was barely up, ribbons of pink and gold bleeding across the eastern horizon. She stretched and yawned, giving Juliana an indignant look when the woman exited the tent and plowed into her. But Juliana needed her coffee and was heading to the mess tent, and Kathlyn needed to get to the dig...
It was also Kathlyn’s home town. Once Dr. Ball had cleaned up her wound and made sure she was out of danger, they moved on to the next step of rehabilitating the leg. It had taken some weeks, but by late spring, things were coming along quite nicely and Kathlyn had proven to be a rotten patient. ...
Somewhere, night blooming jasmine was growing and the heady scent wafted on the air. It would have been a very romantic night had their minds not been elsewhere. Ethan took Cydney’s hand as they crossed the yard and onto the front porch.The officer met them at the door. Ethan had seen the guy f...
Madelayne wasn’t sure she had heard correctly but Dolwyd was quite calm, and quite firm, in his reply. “You will get into bed and nurse the man as you would an infant,” the old man explained again. “My lady, you have milk in your breasts that will keep him alive. He has a belly wound and cannot e...
Bud was a very serious and guarded child. A couple of stable hands helped load up Rory’s trunks on the cart, securing on the flat bed and taking up all of the space. Kieran saddled Liberator himself; the horse was too snappish to let anyone else near him. He loaded up his saddlebags and possessi...
Even from a distance away, Garren could see that the ambiance of Chepstow had changed. A heavy blanket of smoke hung over the castle and he knew that could only mean one thing; either Chepstow was under siege or there was an army in residence. Fortunately for him, it was the lesser of the possibi...
Therefore, when the humidity index rose, so did Elliot’s need to install central air conditioning in the big house. As the plumbers carefully re-plumbed the entire house and re-plumbed and remodeled the upstairs bathrooms, the HVAC contractors carefully laid out their vents next to the new plumb...