A princess risks everything to protect her loved ones.
741: Chiltrude, the daughter of Francia's ruling family, defies her kinsmen and gambles her freedom to seize her heart’s desire, safeguard her child, and secure her new homeland's future.
As her dying father forbids Chiltrude from wedding her beloved Odilo, the Duke of Bavaria, and her brothers’ rivalry threatens to shatter the realm, she faces imprisonment in an abbey and fears for the baby in her womb.
To escape, she takes a perilous journey to Bavaria, where she must contend with the shifting loyalties of the duchy’s influential clans and outwit Odilo’s archrival, her hostile in-laws, and most of all, her own brothers.
In "Duchess of the New Dawn," Kim Rendfeld brings to life forgotten historical characters and events from the days of Charles Martel and tells a compelling story of one woman’s audacity to forge her own path.
