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Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry II and mother of King John, is dead at last after a long and tumultuous life.
Ever sensitive to opportunity, Earl Eustace FitzWalter obtains the dead queen’s secret correspondence and discovers what he sought — proof that his neighbor and enemy Robert Attebrook spied for the queen when he was one of King John’s household knights — an unforgiveable betrayal of his sacred oath to John.
But international events present an obstacle to Eustace’s plan to destroy the Attebrook family. Eleanor of Brittany— grand-daughter of a king, daughter of a prince, and heiress to the duchy — has escaped her imprisonment in England. Because she fled into the wilds of Wales, where English writ does not run nor where English agents are free to roam, the king orders Robert to find her and bring her back. John holds Robert’s wife Giselle and children hostage until he succeeds.
Since this odious assignment is the only way to save his family, Robert pursues Eleanor through Wales and across the sea to Ireland, where her rescuers intended to rest before proceeding to Brittany.
Meanwhile, Eustace obtains custody of Giselle and the children and plans to murder them to fulfill his lust for vengeance.
During a chance encounter in Dublin with Eustace’s son Edmund, the young man boasts to Robert that his family is already dead at Eustace’s hand.
It is a lie, but Robert is convinced of its truth. Believing he has been betrayed by the king, Robert determines to strike back in the only way open to him — by taking Eleanor to Brittany himself.
Only she has fallen into the hands of an Anglo-Irish earl who intends to ransom her to the king.
Read on to discover the explosive conclusion to the Attebrook family saga — and learn the dark and terrible secret that led to the family’s rise into the highest levels of feudal society.
Genre: Historical
Ever sensitive to opportunity, Earl Eustace FitzWalter obtains the dead queen’s secret correspondence and discovers what he sought — proof that his neighbor and enemy Robert Attebrook spied for the queen when he was one of King John’s household knights — an unforgiveable betrayal of his sacred oath to John.
But international events present an obstacle to Eustace’s plan to destroy the Attebrook family. Eleanor of Brittany— grand-daughter of a king, daughter of a prince, and heiress to the duchy — has escaped her imprisonment in England. Because she fled into the wilds of Wales, where English writ does not run nor where English agents are free to roam, the king orders Robert to find her and bring her back. John holds Robert’s wife Giselle and children hostage until he succeeds.
Since this odious assignment is the only way to save his family, Robert pursues Eleanor through Wales and across the sea to Ireland, where her rescuers intended to rest before proceeding to Brittany.
Meanwhile, Eustace obtains custody of Giselle and the children and plans to murder them to fulfill his lust for vengeance.
During a chance encounter in Dublin with Eustace’s son Edmund, the young man boasts to Robert that his family is already dead at Eustace’s hand.
It is a lie, but Robert is convinced of its truth. Believing he has been betrayed by the king, Robert determines to strike back in the only way open to him — by taking Eleanor to Brittany himself.
Only she has fallen into the hands of an Anglo-Irish earl who intends to ransom her to the king.
Read on to discover the explosive conclusion to the Attebrook family saga — and learn the dark and terrible secret that led to the family’s rise into the highest levels of feudal society.
Genre: Historical
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