The Temptation

Book five in a 6 book series.

England, 1158. Elsbeth of Sunnandune longs for the quiet prayerful life of the convent. She has no desire to be a bride or a mother, no longing for the things of this world, but she is a woman and a woman must obey the will of men: king, father, husband, priest. Men rule her life.

But if she can prove herself submissive enough, obedient enough, then she might trade obedience now for the convent later. It is this hope her father holds out to her when he arranges...