A Dark Ages princess gambles her freedom.
741: Chiltrude will defy her powerful kinsmen and risk everything to seize her heart’s desire, protect her child, and preserve her new homeland's independence.
The daughter of Francia's ruling family, Chiltrude wants to wed her beloved Odilo, the Duke of Bavaria, and rule by his side. But her dying father forbids the marriage. As her brothers’ rivalry threatens to shatter the realm, she faces imprisonment in an abbey and fears for the baby in her womb.
After a perilous journey to Bavaria, she must contend with the shifting loyalties of the duchy’s influential clans and outmaneuver 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 choose her own path.
