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The Daughter of the Saxon Twilight |2| Lea Blumenfeld

…in a divided land, her heart will decide the future of a lineage.- England, 1076. Ten years after the Norman Conquest, the kingdom remains deeply divided. Newly raised castles of the victors dominate the horizon, while ancient Saxon families survive under an iron rule marked by mistrust and constant tension. The Norman baron Rhaedor of Branthorpe, loyal to King William the Conqueror, loses his castle after a devastating attack. Leading the assault is a shadow-cloaked Saxon leader, allied with resentful local factions, who lays waste to the stronghold in a brutal massacre. Among the victims falls the entire family of Ariwynn Montrevant, a young Saxon woman forced to witness the horror. Rhaedor manages to reclaim his fortress but is left gravely wounded. Ariwynn, the sole survivor and a key witness to the betrayal, chooses to save his life: not out of compassion for a Norman, but because she sees in him the only real chance for justice. Impressed by her courage—and aware of the political value of her testimony—Rhaedor takes her as his wife, sealing an alliance as improbable as it is inevitable. As loyalties strain and old resentments resurface, the true threat begins to emerge: a cunning, ambitious enemy, complicit in the massacre, who schemes to rise by exploiting both Saxon rebels and discontented Normans alike. In an England torn by mistrust, where every gesture can signal loyalty or betrayal, two hearts find refuge in one another. Forced to choose between duty and desire, they will discover a love that, despite every barrier, is as tempestuous as it is unavoidable. Can two souls broken by violence face duty, vengeance… and a love that threatens to rewrite everything?