The Token Samuel Shellabarger

ISBN:

Published: 2013

Kindle Edition

466 pages

Description

The last gift given Lady Blanche by her beloved father, as a token of his love was a silver girdle to be worn by one who knows lonely sorrow and the pain of toil, but also granting the strength to endure and the right of lordship.Unhappy in her marriage, when the Count leaves for the Crusades, she is still duty bound to take his place as lady of the castle where she wisely and boldly guides the struggling manor to prosperity and harmony.

During those years she meets and loves a troubadour, but her commitment to the castle and her absent lord prohibits her from abandoning her duties and the lovers part.Episodically told in chivalric prose, the story unfolds step by step in eight chapters, The Token is a masterpiece.

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