The Fifth Meonbridge Chronicle

How do you overcome the loathing, lust and bitterness threatening you and your family’s honour?

It’s 1363, and Dickon de Bohun would be enjoying life as a squire in the household of Earl Raoul if it weren’t for Edwin de Courtenay making his life a misery with his bullying, threatening to expose the truth about Dickon’s birth.

At home in Meonbridge, Dickon notices how grown-up his childhood playmate, Libby Fletcher, has become and feels the stirrings of desire. Libby, seeing how different he is too, falls instantly in love.

When Margery Tyler, Libby’s aunt, learns of her passion for young Dickon, their conversation rekindles her long-held rancour against the de Bohuns, blaming them for all her family’s ills. For years she’s hidden her hunger for revenge, but can restrain her hostility no longer.