The Widow's Tale
Margaret Frazer

Recently widowed and still grieving, Cristiana Helyngton finds her life wrenched apart by her late husband's greedy and ambitious relatives, who are determined to have control of her lands and her daughters. Kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery, she must find a way to save herself before she can save her children.

For Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, Cristiana is at first simply a duty among others, but questions rise and troubles deepen--and then turn deadly. Cristiana, to secure her freedom and save her daughters, must use a secret entrusted to her by her husband as he was dying-but it is a secret that could bring down those lords nearest the king and destroy, rather than save, those most dear to her.

Frevisse, drawn into trouble far deeper than she initially imagined, must decide where her deepest loyalties lie: to the truth-or to England's peace. And whatever she chooses, in the end her help may be of little use against the ruthless men threatened by the secret on which all of Cristiana's hopes depend.

(A Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery #14)
Berkley, January 2005
272 pages ISBN: 0425200183
Hardcover
$22.95

Also by Margaret Frazer:
The Apostate's Tale, January 2008
The Traitor's Tale, January 2008
A Play of Lords, August 2007
The Sempster's Tale, January 2007
The Traitor's Tale, January 2007
A Play of Knaves, August 2006
The Sempster's Tale, January 2006
The Widow's Tale, January 2006
A Play Of Dux Moraud, August 2005
The Hunter's Tale, December 2004
A Play of Isaac, August 2004
The Hunter's Tale, January 2004
The Bastard's Tale, January 2004
The Clerk's Tale, December 2002
The Squire's Tale, December 2001
The Reeve's Tale, September 2000
The Maiden's Tale, August 1998
The Prioress' Tale, August 1997
The Murderer's Tale, August 1996
The Boy's Tale, August 1995
The Bishop's Tale, December 1994
The Outlaw's Tale, February 1994
The Novice's Tale, November 1993
The Servant's Tale, November 1993

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