My Father, My Enemy

Description

Juliane Fitzroy is the illegitimate daughter of Henry I—one of his twenty-two bastards. When her father weds her to a young Norman lord, Eustace de Breteuil, she thinks she has done well in life for the daughter of a Saxon concubine.

But Eustace wants a castle he cannot have. He starts hostilities with its castellan, Ralph Harenc, egged on by the dubious Amaury de Montfort.

To keep the peace, King Henry orders a hostage exchange between Eustace and Ralph. Juliane’s pretty young daughters for Ralph’s son.

In a drunken rage, fuelled on by Amaury, Eustace breaks the truce and blinds Harenc’s boy. Furious, the King allows Ralph to take his own brutal vengeance upon Henry’s own granddaughters.

Crazed with grief, Juliane plots revenge for the maiming of her children.

The Wheel of Fate spins. The King must die, his own daughter judge, jury, executioner . . .