The Bastard's Tale

by Margaret Frazer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $5.94

  In the year 1447, powerful men from all the realm of England have been summoned to Parliament in the great pilgrimage town of Bury St. Edmunds. Most come for the straightforward business of making laws and passing taxes, but a small group of great nobles are planning to use this chance to bring down, by treachery and treason, their greatest rival. Against her will and under cover of her friendship with Lady Alice of Suffolk, her high-placed cousin, Dame Frevisse is brought from her nunnery into the fringes of this swirl of politics and plotting by the ambitious Bishop of Winchester. Meant to observe and report to him what she sees, she is instead drawn into the very centre of treachery and death encircling the throne of England. The pity is that desperate acts of loyalty and love are not always enough to save men from murder and an innocent man from the gallows.