Conquered Heart by Jeanette Cooper
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- Pub. Date: June 2006
- 328pp
- Sales Rank: 723,211
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- Pub. Date: June 2006
- Publisher: Publish America
- Format: Paperback, 328pp
- Sales Rank: 723,211
- ISBN-13: 9781424138876
- ISBN: 1424138876
Synopsis
Born the bastard child of Lord Raybourne of Valdenwald, abduction, rape, murder, and mayhem set the prelude to beautiful Edreia’s birth in Anglo Saxon England. Sixteen years later (1066), she suffers unexpected hardships that change her life forever following the fall of England during the Norman Conquest. When Valdenwald falls under siege by the Norman army, its leader, Mikkel, claims Edreia among the spoils of victory as his mistress. Vowing never to submit freely to his passionate nature, Edreia’s life becomes a conflicting struggle between hating him and loving him, intensifying after Cadena, Mikkel’s betrothed, shows up unexpectedly at Valdenwald. A battle of wits ensues between Mikkel’s mistress and his betrothed, finally culminating in a diabolical plot between three of Edreia’s enemies to murder her. As she struggles to stay alive, the prospect of an insecure future allows slim hope for what she truly desires: Mikkel.
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Storytelling Masterpiece!by Anonymous
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September 19, 2009: "Conquered Heart" is a storytelling masterpiece of romance and historical adventure.
Jeanette Cooper seizes our emotions with sharply drawn characters locked in life and death conflicts of passion and duty. How could one not be totally enraptured with the golden-haired maiden Edreia-a spitfire in temperament and an intoxicating lover-as she struggles courageously with the handsome warrior Mikkel, hating him with every fiber in her body even as she swoons irresistibly to his seductive caresses. Novelist Cooper's masterful knowledge and attention to detail in technical passages leaves you in shock and disbelief. You are there. This is real. Incredible! I simply could not put the book down or read the pages fast enough. Don't miss "Conquered Heart." Richard Lee Orey (Author)The Paradise of RevengeFrom Serfdom to Sharecropping and Back Againby Anonymous
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July 15, 2006: Conquered Heart is a historical romance about a young woman?s struggle to come to terms with a new way of life in Anglo Saxon England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. When her father?s fiefdom is captured, she is taken mistress by the leader of the Norman army. Conquered Heart follows her hardships and how she survives. With a sense of d?j? vu, memories of her own early life on a farm in Georgia caused Jeanette to identify with the historical system of fiefdoms and serfdom in Anglo Saxon England, where tenants worked the fields in return for goods and services. To this day, she can recall her father sharecropping for a landowner and receiving half the earnings from the sale of his harvest. Researching Conquered Heart caused her to relive those hard days of work and sweat, days when she dragged a cotton sack on her back and plucked cotton from prickly boles that stabbed, scraped, and cut her tender young hands. In essence, the past never goes away, but returns like the seasons to suffuse with the present and plant the seeds of the future. Such is what Jeanette gives us in this, her second novel.
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