About the Book
Bargaining with the Lady of Merewood (The Ladies of the Keep, Book Two) is connected to The Lords of Vice series and The Duke’s Guard series, through MacInness and his Irish mercenaries—the O’Malleys brothers Patrick and Sean and their cousins, Kelly and Eamon—ancestors of the O’Malleys who appear in these two Regencies series.
The hero of Bargaining with the Lady of Merewood, Norman warrior Augustin de Chauret, is ancestor to Mignonette de Chauret who marries Sean O’Malley in The Duke’s Protector (The Duke’s Guard, Book 2.)
One of Augustin’s vassals, Henri de Beaudoine, is ancestor to Madame Beaudoine who appears in The Lords of Vice Series, The Duke’s Guard Series, and my Lyon’s Den books: Rescued by the Lyon, Captivated by the Lyon, and A Lyon’s Vow of Honor.
The Ladies of the Keep must decide to place their trust in an unlikely ally–or lose everything they hold dear!
Widowed Viking Lady Eyreka barters with William the Conqueror offering marriage to one of his knights in order to save her husband’s birthright.
Lady Eyreka bargains with the king to save her Saxon husband’s keep and her sons’ birthright. When she learns that the king plans to gift it to one of his Norman warriors, widower, Augustin de Chauret, she offers marriage and the continued stewardship of the profitable keep, if her eldest son, Garrick, remains on as seneschal.
She never intended to fall in love again, let alone with the powerful Norman knight, but he has something Eyreka lost and still grieves—a daughter—whose mother died in childbirth, and by marrying Eyreka, allowing her to retain her family’s holding through marriage.
But there are still Saxons who have not given up, though they were defeated in the Uprisings, the strike out at the new Norman lord by capturing his daughter and wife. Norman and Saxon must work together to rescue them. De Chauret will move Heaven and earth to save his daughter and the woman he has fallen in love with.
It takes a strong warrior to realize that in order to win the heart of his lady, he must not force her to become what he has been taught to anticipate, but to accept her for who she is.
Genres & Tropes: Medieval Romance, Historical Romance, Older Hero & Heroine, Hardheaded Heroes, Feisty Heroines, Second Chances, Marriage of Convenience, Hero to the Rescue, Viking vs Norman and Saxon, 11th Century.
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