The Last Champion
Chapter One
Norfolk, England, 1143
Armand Flambard is alive.
The realization quivered along Dominie's veins as she caught sight of Breckland Abbey, its cloister walls standing tall
and austere between a swath of orderly tilled fields and a tangle of wild green forest.
Armand, alive? Was it possible? Dominie De Montford had asked herself that question a hundred times since setting out
three days ago on the risky, roundabout journey from Harwood. Or had Father Clement seen some sort of bizarre vision
while accompanying her mother on a pilgrimage to Breckland's holy well? Dominie could not afford to be absent so long
from her family estates, chasing a will-o'-the-wisp of futile hope.
And yet ...
If it were true, if she did find Armand Flambard here at Breckland, it could mean the difference between survival and
starvation next winter for her family and vassals. Those people were her responsibility now, but they had once been
his. Before he'd forsaken them ... and her.
A rustling sound in the tall grass behind her drove those bitter memories from Dominie's mind, sending her divin ... read full excerpt from The Last Champion ebook
