darlene loop

There’s something strange about the woman living on top of the hill and the people of Fishmonger Bay leave her alone. At least until the day she pays a visit to the village witch. Banding together, the villagers decide to take action. One magic user is bad enough; the emergence of another - intolerable. With her life spinning out of control, Reecah Draakvriend struggles to unravel the dark secret hanging over her head. Trying to fit in with society, she must decide whether to slay the dragon or become a victim of her people.

Lady Catheryn, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is taken against her will to Normandy after the invasion. She arrives, a prisoner, at the castle of Lord Geffrei, a ruthless invader who hopes to gain a ransom for her. Her husband Selwyn is dead, slain in the Conquest, and her daughter Annis has been left behind in England at the mercy of the invaders. Catheryn is treated like an animal, and left in a cell, until she begins to despair.