Lion of Steel (DE LOHR DYNASTY: SONS OF DE LOHR #4) by Kathryn Le Veque EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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ÂYear of Our Lord 1247
Axminster Castle
Seat of the Earls of Axminster
The rain was pouring.
The thunder was pounding.
Lightning streaked across the sky as the battle for control of Axminster
Castle entered its third day. Three days of severe weather, chaos, blood,
death, and frustration.
But the battle, in truth, had started long before the armies took the field.
It all began when a certain Lord Rickard Tatworth of Tatworth Castle,
about ten miles to the north of Axminster, offered for Lady Isabel de
Kerrington’s hand. As the sister to the Earl of Axminster and heiress to the
earldom because her brother was childless, she was considered a prestigious
marital prospect, if not a little old, and Tatworth had ambitions that he
should be the next Earl of Axminster when Eduard de Kerrington keeled
over. The man was of bad health, anyway, and that wasn’t a secret. He was
married, once, but his wife had produced no children.
That left Lady Isabel as a very great prize.
But Isabel was also quite intelligent—and past childbearing age herself
—so when Tatworth began to send missives of his admiration and even love
for her, she burned them. Eduard thought it was quite hilarious that his
spinster sister should have a suitor, which only made Isabel furious. Even at
their ages—with Isabel at forty years and Eduard at fifty years and four—
they fought like siblings often fought at much younger ages. Eduard teased
and Isabel was stoic until they were alone.
Then she used any weapon she could get her hands on against him.
Axminster, however, continued on as a great seat of training and
learning in spite of the antics of the brother and sister who were at her helm.
Eduard was a great earl, benevolent and generous to his vassals, and
Axminster had become a training ground for royal troops because of his
relationship with King Henry III. Eduard was a personal friend, a man who
had supplied the king with both support and money when he needed it, and
Henry had a high regard for Axminster.
He had an even higher regard for Lady Isabel, who had created a school
of manners and learning for the daughters of the nobles of England, a
school of such reputation that everyone wanted to send their daughters
there. Under Lady Isabel’s tutelage, young women learned skills and grace
to become some of the finest ladies in all of England and highly soughtafter wives. Axminster Angels, they were known as. Young ladies with the
most excellent grace in all the land.
Even if their patroness, Lady Isabel, chased her brother around the
castle with a hot fire poker from time to time.
Not surprisingly, the de Kerrington spinster was a formidable woman,
and when Tatworth started his campaign of love and devotion, Isabel was
not only annoyed, she was also embarrassed. It was made worse by
Eduard’s taunting, but that taunting caught up with him. Through karma or
fate or divine humor
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