Guinevere: Bright Shadow

"You may think you know my story. My name has been bandied in ballads and jests, for good and (mostly) for ill. High Queen, priestess, adulterer... but first and always a woman. Courage and honor shaped me; ecstasy transported me; grief, betrayal and terror tempered me.

"My loyalty to the Goddess was supreme. But as the new religion took hold, the pagan way was threatened with extinction. There were those on both sides who would use me as a pawn in that battle, even if it meant taking my lif...