The Lady and the Minstrel

✍ Scribed by Joyce DiPastena

• Book ID: 111024036
• Publisher: Joyce DiPastena
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 820 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780986239601

✦ Synopsis

In 13th century England, Robert Marcel chafes against the law that holds him bound as a villein on his lord's manor. He tries to make a daring escape and is nearly caught by his cruel master, but a young girl helps him slip away.Years pass and Robert takes up trade as a minstrel. Invited to play at a banquet for the notorious Earl of Saxton, he is stunned to come face to face with the girl he's never forgotten—now Lady Marguerite of Winbourne, betrothed to the earl. Her status as a noblewoman puts her completely out of Robert's reach, but he knows they are meant to be together. He vows to make her his wife no matter what the cost.Lady Marguerite has often thought of the young man she helped escape. Her tender feelings for him quickly turn into much more when they are brought back into each other's lives. She longs to be free to marry Robert, the man she loves, but that will require her to sacrifice all she holds dear.They are tested at every turn by those bent on driving them apart and destroying what they have found together. Can their love truly conquer all?