Redemption — Anna Markland

Set in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, Book Three of the Montbryce Legacy Anniversary Edition is the story of Caedmon Woolgar, the illegitimate son of a Norman earl, Ram de Montbryce. A warrior who has always believed he is the son of a Saxon martyr of the Battle of Hastings, Caedmon's discovery of his bastardy threatens to destroy him and his marriage to Agneta Kirkthwaite. He has suddenly become the epitome of everything he despises and seeks redemption by going off to join the First Crusade. His heroic deeds take the reader on an emotional journey to find himself as he travels across Europe to Asia Minor.Agneta harbors hatreds of her own over the massacre of her family and the destruction of her ancestral home-a crime Caedmon unwittingly participated in.Can love help them overcome hatred and forge a powerful dynasty of their own or is it unlikely forgiveness will triumph in a brutal climate of political and religious turmoil?Redemption is set against the backdrop of the rule of King William Rufus and the attempts of the Scottish King Malcolm Canmore to take control of Northumbria from the Normans.