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One Snowy Knight
(The
Dragons of Challon, Book 3)
by
Deborah MacGillivray
A moving medieval Christmas romance
that peers into a lesser seen side of history
Widow Lady Skena
MacIain struggles to protect her own. The battle at Dunbar has
left her without a husband and her keep without a force to defend them
against the English. In the midst of war, providing for the
basic needs and welfare of the community becomes even more urgent and
equally difficult. Skena has seen much hardship. Intelligent and
inventive, she thinks up ingenious ways to protect those around her but
even someone as noble of heart as Skena needs sustenance for body and
soul. Anxious to reach his new home at Craigendan Keep, Noel de
Servian journeys across a relentless snow-blinding landscape.
Weather and temperature bring him to the point of death. When her
two children find a lifeless warrior freezing in the snowstorm, they
speak of a magical gift. Skena has lived through too much to
believe in wishes and easy answers, but as Skena nurses him back to
health, she and Noel begin to know one another. This
handsome knight kindles a warmth in her heart. Skena touches a
place in Noel's heart but will fate deprive him again of his deepest
longings? Or will Cailleach, the Queen of Winter, work
magic? This Christmas, will Noel bring Skena her deepest wish?
Third in the Dragons of Challon series, the medieval Scottish romance
ONE SNOWY KNIGHT is set in 1296, shortly after the Battle of Dunbar and
the sack of Beriwick. Deborah MacGillivray gives readers an
inside look at these historical events, not only in the heart of her
hero Noel, a man tortured by the bloodshed he has witnessed, but also
in the poverty experienced by Skena and her keep. Deborah
MacGillivray does an exceptional job at integrating Celtic knowledge
into the heart of this Christmas romance. Darker than her
previous romances, ONE SNOWY KNIGHT brings alive an aspect of medieval
history not often seen in medieval romances, an aspect that medieval
lovers will cherish for its authenticity. Deborah MacGillivray
does an exceptional job in combining historical setting and artistic
vision in her creation of the landscape of her romances. From the
first scene of the snow-stranded knight and throughout the romance,
Deborah MacGillivray creates stunning imagery that makes the physical
and emotional landscape come alive in the reader's imagination.
Not only can a reader easily visualize the landscape, but one also
hears it in the very language of the dialogue and narration.
Here, as in her previous medieval romances, the reader is not so much
given a history lesson but taken straight into the heart of the
medieval times through the imagery, the conflicts, the characters, the
landscape and above all by the artistry of language itself.
As Deborah MacGillivray turns her vision to the darker aspects of
medieval Scottish history, the romance itself has a deeper emotional
impact. From the darkness and deprivation emerges a love that
resonates in the heart with its realness and substance. A light
superficial Christmas romance, ONE SNOWY KNIGHT is not. Rather,
ONE SNOWY KNIGHT is a romance that resonates deeply precisely because
Deborah MacGillivray dares to look at the less often seen corners of
history and of the soul. Despite the darker tenor of this
romance, Deborah MacGillivray brings relief with these wonderful
precisely-placed magical moments, from the innocent belief of children
to the wonderful cadence of Skena's dialogue to joyous intimate moments
experienced between Skena and Noel. ONE SNOWY KNIGHT is also a
romance touched by magic, love and even a delightful sense of
humor. As a sequel to the previous two books, A RESTLESS
KNIGHT and IN HER BED, this third romance expands the scope and breadth
of the series --- and makes this reader anxiously await what this
author has in store for the series as it develops. Readers of the
series will enjoy seeing characters from the previous romances as well
as the author's ability to expand her vision to new areas, but ONE
SNOWY KNIGHT also works as a stand-alone for those readers new to the
series.
If you are a medieval junkie, like myself, Deborah MacGillivray's
romances, and ONE SNOWY KNIGHT in particular, are not to be
missed. With language and every multi-layered detail, she takes a
reader right in the period. Artistry of writing accompanies the
romance, making ONE SNOWY KNIGHT a romance that will appeal to those
readers who want more from their romances, to those readers who want
history beyond what one can get from a history book and a moving
romance coupled with beautiful writing itself. A true delight for
all medieval lovers!
Publisher: Zebra Historical Romance (October 2009)
Series: Dragons of Challon
Other book in the series: Her Restless Knight, In Her Bed
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Book Description:
Lady Skena
Maclain has seen much hardship this year, and she fears
worse is to come. For a bloody battle in Dunbar has left her a young
widow, and her Scottish fortress without protectors. She wishes she
could be as hopeful as her babes, who believe the Cailleach, the Lady
of Winter, will send them a miracle in time for Christmas. But life has
taught her that things can never be so easy...Until a mysterious
warrior is found amid a blinding snowstorm, sick with fever. As Skena
nurses the handsome knight back to health, even she begins to believe
he might bring salvation to her little keep - and passion to her life,
as his body awakens a long sleeping desire within her...a desire her
touch stirs in him as well. But his wounds speak of danger, and Skena
will soon learn, his past carries a secret that could shake her home -
and her heart - to their very core.
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