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• Title : The Burning Candle: A Medieval Novel
• Author : Lisa J. Yarde
• Rating : 4.75 (372 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-11-8
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 408 Pages
• Asin : 1939138000
• Language : English

If you are a reader looking for a slice of history presented in an entertaining way, every bit as worthy as a book by masters like Sharon Kay Penman or Elizabeth Chadwick, The Burning Candle will be a great choice for your next book to read." -author Richard Warren Field. . "Li

If you are a reader looking for a slice of history presented in an entertaining way, every bit as worthy as a book by masters like Sharon Kay Penman or Elizabeth Chadwick, The Burning Candle will be a great choice for your next book to read." -author Richard Warren Field. . "Lisa Yarde demonstrates a command of her craft as she weaves an entertaining story out of a lesser-known bit of history. The depth of her research is evident in the detailed historical note at the end of The Burning Candle

A smile smoothed his craggy visage. Her eyes strained for the sight of him, until he became a faint dot on the landscape, suddenly vanishing into the haze.. With the first rays of sunlight at his back, the mist created a golden halo around his head. Cruel and kind by contrast, he draws her into the decadent court of King Henry I.As Robert's secrets are unraveled, Isabel finds her heart divided. In a kingdom where love holds no sway over marital relations, Isabel must choose where her loyalties and her heart lie.Based on the life of a remarkable medieval woman forgotten by time, The Burning Candle is a story of duty and honor, love and betrayal.Snippet:Earl William rode the length of the column, giving orders to pick up the pace. The hounds followed the master, yipping and snapping whenever a horse strayed too close. The gentleness of the alaunt beside her gladdened Isabel's heart, as the last of the breed exited Vatteville.At the sloped edge of the crescent-shaped bank, the earl waited for his servants with the pack animals and the last of his knights to clear the gatehouse. He is Robert de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan. As the rearguard joined him, he wheeled his horse forward and joined his men. She has none. In eleventh-century France on the eve of the First Crusade, Isabel de Vermandois becomes the wife of a man old enough to be her fath

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