Fateful Encounter

by June Francis

Ireland, 1395.

A dangerous place, especially for young, widowed Englishwoman Constance.

Having been left property by her late husband, Constance ventures across the seas to explore what is now hers on the Emerald Isle.

Yet before long she finds herself in mortal danger. Knocked off her horse and taken hostage by the barbarian Niall O’More, she loses her kinsmen and finds herself alone and without protection in a strange land, where many regard her as the enemy.

But there is more to Master O’More than meets the eye, and Constance finds herself, against her better judgement, being drawn into his beguiling ways.

She tries to keep her distance, but fate has them crossing paths at every turn.

And when Constance catches wind of a plot against the life of King Richard II, the pair find themselves drawn together once again...

Fateful Encounter is an enchanting historical romance by a master of the genre.

Genres: Historical Romance

244 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Although, June was born in the seaside resort of Blackpool, she has lived all her life in the port of Liverpool, home of the Beatles. One of four children, her love of stories began when her father told her 'The Little Match Girl', which left her in floods of tears, but also with a desire to make up stories, herself. As soon as she could read she was doing a three mile walk to the local library. She passed the scholarship to Liverpool Girls' College where her English teacher told her that she had a great imagination. Despite this, June did not believe she could ever be an author, so on leaving school, she became a cash clerk. She married at twenty-two, has three sons, ran a church playgroup for ten years and it wasn't until her youngest started school that she joined a Writers' Club and turned her hand to writing articles about What She Knew for a woman's magazine. But her first love had always been books and eventually she wrote her first two medieval romances for Mills & Boon. After doing another two, she had an urge to write a family story set in Liverpool during WWII. This was bought by another publisher. Since then she has had thirty-three books published.

Reviews

[Michael Bierbaum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked the setting, liked the characters, liked the plot, however, it was too modern romance-y and that part was clumsily handled. World building was weak and needed more descriptive detail to more immersively establish setting and period.