The Warrior's Princess

✍ Scribed by Erskine, Barbara

• Book ID: 108986025
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 894 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007287208

✦ Synopsis

The powerful new timeslip novel from the worldwide bestselling author of Lady in Hay, in which the fate of a young woman becomes entwined with the extraordinary history of a Celtic princess. Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sisterâ??s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caractacus, king of the mighty Catuvellauni tribe, and the invading Romans. The proud king is captured and taken as a prisoner to Rome with his wife and daughter, the princess Eigon. Jess is inexorably drawn to investigate Eigonâ??s story, and as the Welsh cottage is no longer a peaceful sanctuary she determines to visit Rome. There lie the connections that will reveal Eigonâ??s astonishing life - and which threaten to reawaken Jessâ??s own tormentor. Barbara Erskineâ??s ability to weave together the past and the...