Queen of a Lonely Country — Megan Castell

Gillian wandered Wales with her minstrel father, but singing the proud old songs against the English is against law during these years of Owen Glendowr's rebellion. To give her father's severed head a burial, Gillian barters her maiden head to the lover of her aunt, the witch-like Cerridwen.

A WELSH BALLAD -- OF LOVE AND DANGER!

As a young girl, Gillian had traveled the roads with her father, the minstrel Howel Arawn. From the Severn to the Wye they had gone singing the glory that was Wales before the English invasion.

But now, her father beheaded, her maidenhood sold for her safety, the desperate Gillian sought refuge with her aunt -- the queenly Cerridwen, who ruled her island and her heart with an artful mastery.

But the peace Gillian found was not to last. To the quiet isle came three men who wanted her for their own - one who teased her, one who seduced her and one who contrived a devilish bargain she dared not refuse...until, having lost everything that once had mattered, she found a way to rebuild her world from her heart...to become mistress of her own soul and...QUEEN OF A LONELY COUNTRY