Lyrical Press
Featuring: Alice of Tarnwych; William of Anglesey; Sister Julianna
250 pages ISBN: 1601839162 EAN: 9781601839138 Kindle: B0190HGX9A e-Book Add to Wish List
In a series called Sir
Arthur's Legacy we find the
medieval romance tale of William of Anglesey and Alice of
Tarnwych. CONQUERING WILLIAM begins at their wedding.
Alice has been wed three times already, but has no
children and her father sees profit in allegiances. Her
strict religious attendant Sister Julianna assures Alice
that her red hair is an evil sign, so she keeps it
modestly covered under her drab brown wimple. William, a
stranger to her, might be in for a surprise.
The writing is extremely atmospheric and we're drawn into
Alice's world from the first page. William is accustomed
to being popular with the ladies, so the cloistered
attitude of his new wife is unexpected. He needs her
family's position, but her father is a miser and keeps
the fires unlit until midwinter. Everyone is supposed to
put up with the northern English cold, but William
intends to change that on his wedding night. At this
time, men make the rules and women have few choices.
Next morning William sets about making more changes, from
heat to food to stores, to putting his wife where she
belongs, as chatelaine of her keep. The miserable life
she's led has been imposed on her by others, and William
learns the hardy local farmers grudge tithing to the
keep. The men at arms are useless. He's got his work cut
out. I was cheering for him from quite early in the tale
as, more accustomed to princely living than monastic
simplicity, he strides into Alice's life and shakes it up
and down. Better beware, though. She's lost three
husbands already.
I found the continuing tale highly entertaining, with
wily Scots border raiders as near neighbours, a chest of
silk and velvet for milady and the arrival of characters
who have featured as principals in earlier books of this
series. I wanted to go and read their stories right
away.
By the end I was able to see the tale beneath the tale,
an allegory carefully written and hidden about
repression, responsibility, true faith and joy in love.
Sarah Hegger was born in Britain and now lives in
Colorado, where she writes her most excellent historical
romances. CONQUERING WILLIAM is suitable for adults who
enjoy a well-woven detailed romance.
He married for convenience, but William of Anglesea had
hoped for more than piety from his new bride. Raised in a
convent and thrice widowed, prim Lady Alice of Tarnwych
seems like an innocent when it comes to the marriage
bed-except for the tentative passion he senses in her touch,
and sees in her eyes. It seems the bold knight has a new
challenge in alluring Alice. But will seducing his
intriguing wife lead to his downfall?
An inconvenient desire...
Everything about charming, free-spirited William defies the
cloistered world Lady Alice comes from. Duty brings her to
their bed-and a long-held hope for a child. Yet after three
indifferent husbands, the desire William shows her awakens
her own. Little did Alice expect the powerful feelings he
would inspire, emotions that make her ready to abandon her
rigid beliefs, and the only family she's ever known-when
William's life is on the line....
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