Dame Frevisse
2 total works
Years previously, young Robert Fenner was forced into marriage with the older Lady Blaunche. Now, in 1442, he is being forced towards warfare with a powerful knight to protect lands his wife wrongly holds and will not surrender. Worse, he is in love with his ward Katherine, whose wealth makes her a goal of other men's greed, including his stepson's. To protect her, Robert must deny his love and choose someone else for her to marry while he fends off his wife's ambitions. Into this turmoil of loves, lusts, angers, fear, and greed, Dame Frevisse is brought from her nunnery's contemplative quiet by Lady Blaunche's need, only to find that more than prayers are needed when murder is done.
Rebellious factions, determined to unseat King Henry from the throne, have been staging uprisings throughout England. In the midst of this unrest, Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery has come to her cousin's side. Lady Alice, the widowed duchess of Suffolk, needs Frevisse's support in burying her unlamented husband, and when men in Suffolk's employ start disappearing, Frevisse fears for her cousin's safety.Wandering player Simon Joliffe has also come to London, filling the role of courier for the exiled duke of York and bringing vital information - a list bearing the names of the English noblemen who purportedly betrayed their King by conspiring with the French.Now Frevisse starts to wonder whether or not the list is real or part of an even greater conspiracy against the crown.