Born of the Sun
Book description
This compelling saga about a beautiful Celtic princess who gives her heart to a Saxon prince explodes with the passions of love and war. When the Saxon army, in its bloody charge against the Celts, captures the child-princess Niniane, they bring her to Cynric, King of the West Saxons. Enchanted…
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England is hardly an unusual place for historical fiction, but 7th-century England is entirely different. Wolf takes you to an England where the Saxons are holding court at Winchester while the remnants of Romanized Britain are desperately trying to organize resistance from their decaying villas. It’s a view of an England in flux, broken into small, warring kingdoms—told from the viewpoint of a British princess, Nan, married off to a Saxon prince. But Nan is no wilting violet and her story is one I still re-read again and again.
Born of the Sun is a beautiful interweaving of place and…
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