The Briton and the Dane: Concordia by Mary Ann Bernal - Available on Amazon
Travel back in time to late Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon Britain where
Alfred the Great rules with a benevolent hand while the Danish King
rules peacefully within the boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes,
and scholars from throughout the civilized world flock to Britannia’s
shores to study at the King’s Court School at Winchester. Enter
Concordia, a beautiful noble woman whose family is favored by the king.
Vain, willful, and admired, but ambitious and cunning, Concordia is not
willing to accept her fate. She is betrothed to the valiant warrior,
Brantson, but sees herself as far too young to lay in the bedchamber of
an older suitor. She wants to see the wonders of the world, embracing
everything in it; preferably, but dangerously, at the side of Thayer,
the exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred’s court and ignites her
yearning passions. Concordia manipulates her besotted husband into
taking her to Rome, but her ship is captured by bloodthirsty pirates,
and the seafarers protecting her are ruthlessly slain to a man. As she
awaits her fate in the Moorish captain’s bed, by sheer chance, she
discovers that salvation is at hand in the gilded court of a Saracen
nobleman. While awaiting rescue, Concordia finds herself at the center
of intrigue, plots, blackmail, betrayal and the vain desires of two
egotistical brothers, each willing to die for her favor. Using only
feminine cunning, Concordia must defend her honor while plotting her
escape as she awaits deliverance, somewhere inside steamy, unconquered
Muslim Hispania.
Travel back in time to late Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon Britain where
Alfred the Great rules with a benevolent hand while the Danish King
rules peacefully within the boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes,
and scholars from throughout the civilized world flock to Britannia’s
shores to study at the King’s Court School at Winchester. Enter
Concordia, a beautiful noble woman whose family is favored by the king.
Vain, willful, and admired, but ambitious and cunning, Concordia is not
willing to accept her fate. She is betrothed to the valiant warrior,
Brantson, but sees herself as far too young to lay in the bedchamber of
an older suitor. She wants to see the wonders of the world, embracing
everything in it; preferably, but dangerously, at the side of Thayer,
the exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred’s court and ignites her
yearning passions. Concordia manipulates her besotted husband into
taking her to Rome, but her ship is captured by bloodthirsty pirates,
and the seafarers protecting her are ruthlessly slain to a man. As she
awaits her fate in the Moorish captain’s bed, by sheer chance, she
discovers that salvation is at hand in the gilded court of a Saracen
nobleman. While awaiting rescue, Concordia finds herself at the center
of intrigue, plots, blackmail, betrayal and the vain desires of two
egotistical brothers, each willing to die for her favor. Using only
feminine cunning, Concordia must defend her honor while plotting her
escape as she awaits deliverance, somewhere inside steamy, unconquered
Muslim Hispania.
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