It's been quite awhile since I've read a good Historical romance, and this story swept me off my feet and carried me away. I needed this story and it fell into my lap at the right time. Easy and light and slightly predictable...it was perfect. In many ways it reminded me of
The Wolf and the Dove
..a wonderful story I read in the '70's. And like that story of long ago, this story wrapped its big arms around me and reeled me in from its beginning.
Lady Serena has the face of an angel with such delicate features and soft ivory skin..... lips the color of roses. Her silver platinum hair is her crowning glory. She's fierce with a bow and possesses a quick, intelligent wit and a singing voice sent from heaven. With large expressive violet eyes and flaxen blond hair that falls below her waist, she is a very, VERY lovely young woman of seventeen years who now disguises herself as a servant to avoid marriage to the new lord of her confiscated home, Sir Renaud de Pierrepont. Against her will, she is to be given in marriage to a Norman Knight that William the Conqueror...(soon to be King William) has awarded. Well, by gum...SHE WON'T HAVE IT! She won't be reduced to a possession; a prize to Sir Renaud de Pierrepont. But her father has died and her brother is in Scotland rallying rebels to retake England. Except for her people of Talisand, she is alone. So she dyes her hair and does her best to hide under the Normans' very noses.
He's a noble Norman knight in England to claim his title, lands and bride awarded to him by the new King...William the Conqueror. Sir Renaud de Pierrepont is very loyal and disciplined and demands the same from his entourage who now occupy Talisand lands. He has piercing silver gray eyes and dark chestnut brown hair. He's lean and muscular with a rippling bronzed, powerful physique. He's commanding and compelling. He's also compassionate and honorable with a distinguished and well known reputation. He is the Red Wolf.
I loved this lighthearted romance...that was also serious in nature with the conquering of England and the devastation of the effects of war. Serena is such a strong young woman who struggles with her grudging respect and desire that begins to grow for Sir Renaud, her Norman enemy. Try as she might to seek her revenge and free her people, she finds instead that her walls slowly crumble against her will. And for Sir Renaud, she becomes the soft to his hard- - the sunshine to his dark. She's innocence to his roughness. And he quickly becomes lost without her. She becomes his reason to plan a tomorrow. This story began with a 5★ studded BANG and carried that echoing crescendo to its final line.
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... Walker's I've read and I have to say it's wonderful. The storyline is well written and the characters ...
This is the first book of Regan Walker's I've read and I have to say it's wonderful. The storyline is well written and the characters roles are written in such a way it was easy for me to follow along. Im already looking for another Regan Walker book to read.
