Fair, Bright, and Terrible (Welsh Blades #2)

Fair, Bright, and Terrible (Welsh Blades #2)

Author: Elizabeth Kingston Listening Length: 8h 22m
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Wales is conquered, and Eluned has lost everything: her country, her husband, her hope. All that remains is vengeance, and she will stop at nothing to have it. Certain there is no trace within her of the idealistic girl who loved Robert de Lascaux a lifetime ago, she agrees to marry him to advance the fortunes of her s...

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A mid a small crowd of advisors and bosom friends, King Edward was describing the effort over the years to hold his duchy in France. It was a tale in which Robert featured prominently, and by the end of it he was so covered over in royal appreciation that he could almost believe the last two decades of his life were not wasted.

“By the saints,” he said to the king with a smile, “I think I have pleased my king almost as much as I have pleased my father. It is he who should be heaping thanks upon you, for he will tell you that my desire to serve you well is all that commends me.”