Vaenn
A Medieval Erotic Romance
In Anglo-Norman England not long after the Viking invasions had been quelled and the Norman invasion had created another period of unrest...
On his deathbed, Lord Reynard of Giseldone requests a scandalous favor of his much younger wife, Lady Vaenn, a former Viking scout wounded and captured by the Norman leader in a bloody raid on his land.
Loyal of heart and ever mindful of her indebtedness to Lord Reynard, the valiant Vaenn sets out to fulfill her husband's final bequest. She is his property after all, the same as his steed or his broadsword, to be given away as her overlord wills it. 'Tis his right and so be it.
Zendyre, of everywhere and nowhere, is on a quest to discover the secret of his birth. Who is he?
He's searched the world over to find where he belongs. Mayhap if he does, the bane of his existence - a persistent and unaccountable loneliness - will leave him.
When widow and warrior collide one dark and stormy eve, they set into motion a series of events that might very well spell the destruction of Giseldone forevermore.
Behind the Book
- Who Were the Normans?
- Norman Castles in England
There has been an elevated interest in the Viking invasions of England of late and admittedly I am also a fan. Vaenn is set in the period after the Viking invasions of England. Vikings that settled in northern France rather than England came to be known as "Northmen" or Normans and the region as Normandy. Ironically, these French speaking Catholic descendents of the original Viking invaders, still aggressive conquerors, set their sights on England and some of the descendents of their Norse countrymen.
The Normans set to governing England and building and rebuilding castles. One of the most well know of these would be the White Tower in the Tower of London. Read more about the Normans
and their castles with the links found in the Behind the Book section to the left.