Book excerpt: Amid the chaos of the Norman Conquest, a Saxon beauty goes from captive to bride . . . In the eleventh century, in the land of Mercia—one day to be known as the English Midlands—Lady Aediva of Etton is prepared to do anything to protect her sister, Cille. So when enemies storm her family’s keep, Aediva assumes Cille’s identity . . . taking her place as prisoner of Sir Svend du Danemark. Svend’s sole aim is to fulfill his service to William the Conqueror and rebuild the life a woman’s betrayal once lost him. So when he receives his new orders to quash the Saxon rebellion, he is stunned. For to do his duty, he must vow to take the beautiful yet provoking Aediva as his wife!