The Marshal’s Wife

By Rosamund Fairfax

An arranged marriage becomes an unexpected medieval love story.

About the story

The king has chosen her husband. What they make of the marriage is still unwritten.

Isabel has spent years as a royal ward, aware that decisions about her future are made elsewhere. When William Marshal arrives at the Tower, he is direct about the arrangement: neither of them has been offered much choice.

What surprises her is his willingness to say so—and to ask what she thinks. The soldier standing before her is careful, blunt, and less interested in flattering a great heiress than she expected. An ordered marriage begins with an unfamiliar possibility: that the woman inside the arrangement might be heard.

A medieval historical romance imagining William Marshal and Isabel de Clare, with the private work of building a relationship set against the public business of land, service, and royal power.

Your kind of romance?

• A royally arranged marriage
• William Marshal and Isabel de Clare
• Medieval England
• Historical fiction about an unexpected partnership

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From the opening pages

I had expected many things from the man the King would choose to marry me to—vanity, perhaps, or the particular arrogance of a man who has been handed an heiress as reward, as though I were a purse of silver with a woman’s face stitched onto it.

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