Julia Justiss | Tangled Lives
As the winds of spring turn to summer, we look to the Middle Ages for this month’s round of stories. “Uneasy is the head that wears the crown,” Shakespeare wrote, and along with illuminating a long-vanished world, these novels also vividly demonstrate the danger within the glamor of those whose blood ties them a little too closely to a throne. Proceeding chronologically, we begin with THE REBEL NUN by Marj Charlier, which sheds new light on fascinating and little-known sixth-century personality Clotild. While a (not surprisingly) nega...