Carried Away
by Anna Markland
A beautiful love story, battles, a kidnapping and a window into the politics and monarchy of the year 1113. Lady Blythe FitzRam was a sixteen-year-old, very unhappy lady-in-waiting to the twelve-year-old Queen Matilda. After the royal wedding, the king left to battle in the rebellion in Koln and was gone a number of years. Handsome Count Von Wolfenberg and his followers decided to kidnap the Queen from her church to use her to force Heinrick (the King) to withdraw from their lands. But the plan backfired...