The Lioness of Clare: Prequel to the Kingslayer Saga

Before she was the Kingslayer's wife, she was the Lioness of Clare.

Adelice de Clare is the only daughter of the Chief Justiciar of England, the man who runs the country while William the Conqueror rules from his native Normandy. Before she ever set foot in her husband's hall, she had already met a future king, stood in the court of Duchess Matilda, who governed half an empire in her own right while her husband warred abroad, learned the ancient lessons of her Viking ancestry, and decided, long before the marriage itself was ever hers to choose, exactly who she meant to become.

Walter Tyrell III, the man she marries, is the author's direct ancestor, and history's named suspect in the hunting accident that killed King William II, a verdict debated for centuries and never fully settled. This is the story of the woman who stood beside him before any of it happened.

A stranger waits to marry her in Normandy. Before she rides to meet him, she takes one last ride of freedom and puts everything she has learned to the test. What she carries into that marriage, the fire her mother gave her and the lessons she earned on her own, is what makes her the Lioness of Clare.

Author's Notes: The Lioness of Clare is a free 20,000-word novella, the prequel to the Kingslayer Saga. About half is original material that appears nowhere else, and the rest are two complete early chapters of Book One, The Red Knight of Normandy, the first chapters in the series to include Adelice.

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