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Book Review of The Innocent

The Innocent
The Innocent
Author: Bertrice Small
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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The year is 1154, and Eleanore de Montfort is preparing to take her final vows as a nun when King Stephen intervenes. Eleanore, known as Elf, has inherited an estate close to the Welsh border too strategic to be left to the management of her religious order. The king decrees that Elf wed one of his knights, Ranulf de Glandeville. Older, battle-hardened, and worldly, Ranulf is enchanted with his ingenuous bride. He struggles to win her love. But their love is not secure from the wicket schemes of an enemy who hates Eleanore, and will seek to destroy the innocent, putting Elf's life in jeopardy, and her faith in love to its greatest test.