A Meonbridge Chronicles Companion Novel

1362, Winchester. Seven months ago, accused of bringing plague and death from Winchester, Bea Ward was hounded out of Meonbridge by her former friends and neighbours. She struggled back to Winchester, yet, once she arrived, she wondered why she’d come, when the love of her life, Riccardo Marchaunt, was married and she no longer had the strength for her old life on the streets.

Reduced to begging, she found herself on Riccardo’s doorstep, with no plan beyond hoping he might help her, or at least provide a final resting place for her poor body.

Riccardo could not have been more relieved to find Bea still alive, when he thought he had lost her forever. He longs to marry her. But how? His father would forbid such an “unfitting” match. And what would his fellow merchants think?

Determined to find a solution to his dilemma, he hatches a plan to make it happen. But even the best laid plans sometimes go awry. And the path of love never did run smooth…

The Merchant’s Dilemma is a companion novel to the MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLES series, continuing the story of Bea and Riccardo from the end of the fourth Chronicle, Children’s Fate.