Madselin

Although not a stranger to the raw realities of her medieval world, Madselin, being of royal descent, has grown up a bit shallow, willful and self-absorbed. At the age of 17, she becomes the wife of an aging Saxon lord only to find herself, in the space of a few short days, mourning the loss of her husband, land, title, and friends. The novel opens in the winter of 1067, 16 months after the French victory at the Battle of Hastings. Now a widow, Madselin is hiding in a convent from the Norman usurpers who have brutally murdered her husband and taken over the little farming community. Rolf,…