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Travel back in time to later ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Britain, where Alfred the Great rules with a benevolent hands as the Danish king rules peacefully within the boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes, and scholars from throughout the civilized world flock to Britannia's shores to review at the King's Courtroom University at Winchester. Enter Concordia, a lovely noblewoman whose family is favored by the ruler. Vain, willful, and popular but ambitious and cunning, Concordia is not willing to simply accept her fate. She is betrothed to the valiant warrior Brantson but considers herself as far too young to lie in the bedchamber of an older suitor. She wishes to start to see the miracles of the world, embracing everything in it - preferably, but dangerously, beside Thayer, the exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred's judge and ignites her yearning passions. Concordia manipulates her besotted husband into taking her to Rome, but her ship is captured by bloodthirsty pirates, and the seafarers safeguarding her are ruthlessly slain to a man. As she awaits her destiny in the Moorish captain's bed, by large chance she discovers that salvation is at submit the gilded judge of the Saracen nobleman. While awaiting recovery, Concordia locates herself at the center of intrigue, plots, blackmail, betrayal, and the vain wants of two egotistical brothers, each willing to die on her behalf favor. Using only womanly cunning, Concordia must defend her honor while plotting her break free as she awaits deliverance someplace inside steamy, unconquered Muslim Hispania.
