Sword Joy

By Cassia Fairweather

Love has always been worth the risk.

About the story

A king’s son at the door. A future no one has promised her.

Ecgwynn sees the smoke before she sees the riders. With raiders threatening her home, the arrival of Edward, son of King Alfred, brings the immediate relief of help—and an attention she has no reason to expect from a man whose future belongs to a kingdom.

Their first encounter takes place among frightened households, weapons gathered in haste, and the practical business of surviving. But the look that lingers after a name is spoken belongs to a different kind of story. Edward has duties beyond this hall. Ecgwynn has a life that cannot be measured in royal expectations.

A historical romance imagining Edward and Ecgwynn amid the dangers and divisions of early medieval England. The relationship is presented as fiction, with the intimacy of a personal story inside a much larger struggle.

Your kind of romance?

• Early medieval England
• Edward and Ecgwynn
• A royal future and a life outside it
• Historical fiction centered on a relationship

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From the opening pages

The smoke came first, before the riders, before the shouting. I saw it from the top of the rise behind our sheep-fold, a smudge the color of a bruise rising over the tree line to the east, and I knew before anyone told me what it meant.

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