Tamara Leigh

12th century England: Two men vie for the throne: King Stephen the usurper and young Duke Henry the rightful heir. Amid civil and private wars, alliances are formed, loyalties are betrayed, families are divided, and marriages are made.For four years, Lady Annyn Bretanne has trained at arms with one end in mind--to avenge her brother's murder as God has not deemed it worthy to do. Disguised as a squire, she sets off to exact revenge on a man known only by his surname, Wulfrith. But when she holds his fate in her hands, her will wavers and her heart whispers that her enemy may not be an enemy after all.Baron Wulfrith, renowned trainer of knights, allows no women within his walls for the distraction they breed. What he never expects is that the impetuous young man sent to train under him is a woman who seeks his death--nor that her unveiling will test his faith and distract the warrior from his purpose.

Book One in the Age of Faith Series

The Unveiling

HE WAS THE VILEST OF MENLizanne Balmaine has spent years honing her skills at arms, determined she will never again be at the mercy of any man. When she comes face to face with the one who stole her future, she seizes the opportunity to exact revenge. Soon he is her prisoner, at her mercy. But something is different about him, something that makes her question her purpose. Is it possible a man can be so changed? More, can she right the wrong that could lay ruin to her family? SHE WAS A QUESTION NEVER BEFORE ASKED OF HIMRanulf Wardieu does not seek a bride, nor a settling of scores when his mission for the king places him in the path of a beguiling, raven-haired maiden. But fascination turns to fury when she imprisons him. Accused of wrongdoing, the nature of which she refuses to reveal, he discovers the lady is as skilled at wielding a sword as she is at verbal sparring. When he bests her at her game and his jailer becomes his captive, he is determined to learn what wrong he has done her. However, as they engage in a battle of wits and wills and he glimpses her woman's heart, he discovers Lizanne is a question never before asked of him--one his own jaded heart refuses to answer.

Book One in the Lady Series

Lady at Arms

a novel

Leaving Carolina

A time to live. A time to die. A time to dream.Sleep disorders specialist Kennedy Plain has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. When her research subject dies after trying to convince her he has achieved dream-induced time travel and her study is shelved, she enlists herself as a subject to complete her research. But when she dreams herself into 14th-century England and falls into the hands of Fulke Wynland, a man history has condemned as a murderer, she must not only stay alive long enough to find a way to return to her own time, but prevent Fulke from murdering his young nephews. And yet, the more time she spends with the medieval warrior, the more difficult it is to believe he is capable of committing the heinous crime for which he has been reviled for 600 years.Baron Fulke Wynland has been granted guardianship of his brother's heirs despite suspicions that he seeks to steal their inheritance. When the king sends a mysterious woman to care for the boys, Fulke is surprised by the lady's hostility toward him--and more surprised to learn she is to be his wife. But when his nephews are abducted, the two must overcome their mutual dislike to discover the boys' fate. What Fulke never expects is to feel for this woman whose peculiar speech, behavior, and talk of dream travel could see her burned as a witch.

Dreamspell

THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN.A battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England-forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.AN HONORABLE NORMANChevalier Cyr D'Argent convinced himself he joined Duke William's invasion of England to reform its church and place its rightful king on the throne. But after a decisive Norman victory, the truth of his quest is revealed when his search for fallen kin leads to a Saxon grieving a boy slain by one of his own. Certain the defiant young woman will become the pick of the plunder, he forces her off the battlefield. Following a pilgrimage of penance, Cyr returns to England to seek his missing brother and claim the barony awarded by King William who stipulates he end the rebellion on his lands. He agrees, only to discover the woman he cannot forget is among those he must vanquish-and may even be their leader.A REBELLIOUS SAXONOn a fateful autumn day in 1066, Aelfled of Wulfen's mistake leads to the death of her lady's son. Unforgivable-as is the silver-haired warrior who tempts her to put a blade in his back then does the unthinkable in protecting her from his fellow Normans. Now under the usurper's rule, faith crippled by her people's suffering, she finds her sanctuary threatened when she becomes a pawn of the rebel leader-and destroyed when betrayal delivers her into the hands of the man who haunts her dreams. As the fires of unrest scorch lives and lands, Aelfled struggles to shield her heart as well as her people. But perhaps love can unite Normans and Saxons. Perhaps she is meant to be here with him for such a time as this.Thus begins the AGE OF CONQUEST series revealing the origins of the Wulfriths of the bestselling AGE OF FAITH series. Watch for FEARLESS: Book Two in Spring 2019.

Book One: Age of Conquest

Merciless

THE FEUDEngland, 1308. Three noblemen secretly gather to ally against their treacherous lord. But though each is elevated to a baron in his own right and given a portion of their lord's lands, jealousy and reprisals lead to a twenty-five year feud, pitting family against family, passing father to son.THE DECREEEngland, 1333. The chink in Baron Boursier's armor is his fondness for a lovely face. When it costs him half his sight and brands him as one who abuses women, he vows to never again be "blinded" by beauty. Thus, given the choice between forfeiting his lands and wedding one of his enemies to end their feud, he chooses as his betrothed the lady said to be plain of face, rejecting the lady rumored to be most fair.THE ENEMYOn the eve of the deadline to honor the king's decree of marriage, the fair Elianor of Emberly takes matters into her own hands. Determined none will suffer marriage to the man better known as The Boursier, she sets in motion her plan to imprison him long enough to ensure his barony is forfeited. But when all goes awry and her wrathful enemy compels her to wed him to save his lands, she discovers he is either much changed or much maligned. And the real enemy is one who lurks in their midst. One bent on keeping the feud burning.

The Feud: Book One

Baron of Godsmere

Knight Liam Fawke, tricked out of his rightful inheritance by his treacherous half-brother, finds himself drawn to his young nephew's beautiful mother, Lady Joslyn, who is determined to protect her son from his vengeance but must confront her own forbidden love for her adversary. Original.

Misbegotten

From USA Today Bestselling author, Tamara Leigh, the seventh book in the AGE OF FAITH series-featuring Lady Laura Middleton of THE YIELDING and Sir Lothaire Soames of THE VEXING. FAR BETTER TO LOVE WITHOUT PROFIT... Even if she must sell herself in marriage to the highest bidder, Lady Laura Middleton is determined to provide her daughter a home and protector. But when Queen Eleanor presents her cousin with four suitors, among them is one who believes Laura betrayed him ten years past. Despite her attempts to discourage his pursuit, he is determined to have her for the dowry needed to save his lands. Should he prevail, how is she to shield her daughter from the enemy who lurks within his walls? And what of her heart? If she reveals the truth of her betrayal, might he love her again? ...THAN LOVE NOT AND REAP BITTERNESS Beware the Delilah, my son. Beware the Jezebel-advice Baron Lothaire Soames should have heeded as a young man. Now in need of funds, he faces marriage to the woman he lost to scandal. Though he vows to find another way to return prosperity to his lands, his former betrothed proves his only hope and he grudgingly vies to become her worthiest suitor-only to be struck by how little it takes his heart to pick up where it left off. Can he forgive what cannot be forgotten? More, will she forever yearn for the man who fathered her child?

Book Seven (Age of Faith)

The Awakening

Have you lost someone you love to suicide or overdose? Do you feel as if you are being knocked down over and over again by emotional waves?This guide is for you if you are trying to learn how to navigate this very unique grief journey. This grief is messy. It's irrational. The unanswered questions never end. You are surrounded by silence. Societal attitudes produce shame. Guilt is so deep it aches. Sleepless nights - a new normal - a new you.I know where you are right now. I get it. My boyfriend died by suicide. No one even wanted to talk to me about my loss. I was alone in my grief. I was digging for answers and searching for a path to healing. Because of what I have experienced, I wrote this guide for you. I want you to know you are not alone. Healing is coming. I promise. There is hope. The purpose of this guide is to help you Push Through this grief journey, so you can have healing and a renewed hope in life. Every day is a new day. Let's PUSH THROUGH.

Suicide Loss Grief; a GUIDE to PUSHING THROUGH

FALLENOn the eve of her profession as a nun, Lady Graeye Charwyck is called home to Medland by the father who disavowed her years earlier for the "devil's mark" she bears. Desperate to escape the convent, she agrees to wed a man she detests to provide an heir for her family's holdings. But when the king declares the Charwyck lands forfeit and awards them to their enemy, Graeye once more finds herself discarded. Grieved by her father's plans to return her to the convent, she yields to impulse and casts aside her virtue, only to discover that the knight with whom she sinned is the new lord of Medland. RELENTLESSBaron Gilbert Balmaine is a man eaten through with desire to see the end of the Charwyck line for all the ills the family has visited upon his own. With the heir dead, the only remaining survivor too aged to beget another, and their lands forfeited for the atrocities committed against the Balmaines, light lies ahead--until Gilbert learns there is a daughter. And his world darkens further when he realizes she is the one who, on a starry night, tempted him past temptation. Certain she intended to trap him into marriage, he vows he will not rest until she is back within the walls of her abbey. Now if only he can forget her... If only that night did not have such far-reaching consequences...

Book Two in the Lady Series

Lady Of Eve

Desperate to put to an end the humiliating rumors surrounding his lack of an heir, Lord Bernart Kinthorpe orders his virgin wife, Juliana, to the bed of his sworn enemy, Lord Gabriel de Vere. Although she expects to feel revulsion and pain in the arms of the man responsible for her husband's impotence, Juliana finds a man of passion and honor.

Blackheart

Furious when he discovers that his jailer is a raven-haired maiden disguised as a man, Ranulf Wardieu vows to woo and win Lizanne Balmaine, the woman whose future he had stolen years before. Original.

Warrior Bride

USA Today Bestselling author Tamara Leigh returns with a tale of betrayal, vengeance, and forbidden longing in Lady Undaunted, her latest historical romance set in medieval England. BETRAYED Declared illegitimate and denied his inheritance, Sir Liam Fawke has given six years of his life in service to his younger brother for the promise of being named heir to the Barony of Ashlingford. But when he is summoned to his brother's deathbed, he learns his treacherous kin has secretly wed and fathered a son. Vowing to claim what is rightfully his, Liam contests his nephew's succession. And not only finds himself at dangerous odds with the boy's lovely, spirited mother, but attracted to one who is forbidden him-one whose son is the means by which he could twice lose all. FORBIDDEN Three years ago, Lady Joslyn struck a desperate bargain to wed a nobleman and provide him with an heir. Now widowed, she must protect her young son from her husband's vengeful brother who will stop at nothing-including murder-to take what does not belong to him. But when she seeks an audience with the king to secure her son's inheritance, she discovers Sir Liam may have the stronger claim and that the truth of him could make lies of all she was led to believe. More unsettling, she is drawn to the man beneath the anger who can never forgive her for the part she played in his brother's deception-nor forget to whom she first belonged.

A Medieval Romance

Lady Undaunted

Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan is on a mission. First she has to come to terms with being a widow at 33. Second, she needs to find an eco-friendly buyer for her family's estate--a Biltmore-inspired mansion surrounded by hundreds of acres of unspoiled forestland.

A Novel

Restless in Carolina

Pledging to smuggle a virtuous young woman from a harem in exchange for his freedom, slave Lucien de Gautier is unprepared for the greater challenge that is presented by the red-haired beauty who captures his heart. Original.

Pagan Bride

THE FEUD ~ England, 1308. Boursier, De Arell, Verdun--three noblemen who secretly gather to ally against their treacherous lord. Though each is elevated to a baron in his own right and given a portion of his lord's lands, jealousy and reprisal lead to a twenty-five-year feud, pitting family against family, passing father to son.THE PRIZE ~ England, 1333. When Lady Quintin Boursier leads an army against the Baron of Blackwood to demand the release of her abducted brother, she finds the same fate awaits her. Now she must free herself and discover where Griffin de Arell holds her brother before her family's lands are forfeited. But as the long winter nights unfold and those prowling the black wood move the feud nearer its deadly end, Quintin realizes she may have wronged her captor. And that he is as much a captive to her--she whose secret will spoil the prize others seek to make of a woman no man should want.THE VICTOR ~ Baron Griffin de Arell protects those who belong to him, and now that the tempest who dared put a blade to his throat is his, he intends to protect her--if only from herself. However, Quintin Boursier yet has games to play. Though Griffin resists her wiles, when it appears her family's lands are forfeited, a glimpse of her woman's heart tempts him to make the lady his in truth. Now with the enemy responsible for inciting the feud determined to claim her as his prize, he must join his grudging allies in bringing peace to their lands and protecting the woman who first set herself at his walls--then his warrior's heart.Join Griffin and Quintin in the third and final book in this best-selling medieval romance series as the Boursiers, De Arells, and Verduns seek the light at the end of their long, dark feud.

Book Three (the Feud)

Baron of Blackwood

THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN.A battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England-forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.DECEIT WRAPPED IN SOMETHING SWEETAfter aiding the English resistance who once more fail to reclaim their country from the invaders, Lady Marguerite returns home to Scotland in the aftermath of William the Conqueror's harrying of the North-and does not come alone. Accompanying the Sparrow of King Malcolm's Court is a warrior mistakenly believed her enemy, the price for which may be his irreparable loss of sight. Burdened by having laid the trap for a man she regrets not recognizing sooner, and strangely drawn to him, she determines she will be the one to tend this Norman. But that is possible only if he does not learn she is responsible for what could strip the warrior from him. When her deception is unveiled, will he reject what he has come to feel for her? When he leaves, will he take her heart with him?A WARRIOR CAST IN SHADOWS DEEPGifted with a sense beyond the natural, which has made life seem more a sport than a battle, Sir Theriot D'Argent counts himself favored by God-until the night he aids villagers attacked by his fellow Normans and a good deed turns tragic. Stricken blind, his world reduced to shadows amid clouded light, he finds himself a prisoner of the King of Scotland and in the care of a lady whose voice and touch disturb as much as the belief her secrets are not hers alone. Will his sight be restored? Or is this divine punishment for aiding in England's conquest? And what is he to do with feelings for the one whose trap ensnared him? Even were it possible to forgive her for a life cruelly altered, he would be a burden-and a danger for being unable to protect the lady from her murderous kin.

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