Sapphire in the Snow

KIDNAPPED BY THE ENEMY... Raised in a convent, innocent Beatrice Giffard never imagined she would be stolen away by the fierce Saxon warrior, Edmund of Lindsey. Her handsome abductor is going to use her as a political pawn because she is Norman! After his brother is killed in a massacre, Edmund is thirsty for vengeance. Using Beatrice will bring him closer to his enemy, but he is unprepared for the strong attraction to this beautiful maiden. Her gentle ways are laying siege to his heart...but how will he choose between protecting his family and loving her? A passionate and dramatic medieval romance set in England in the turbulent aftermath of the Norman Conquest. This debut novel won the Romantic Novelists' Association Award for New Writers in 1989.