@emilyekmurdoch Conquests: Hearts Rule Kingdoms by Emily Murdoch Book Spotlight!

England, 1069.

The nation is still recovering from the Norman invasion three years earlier - and adjusting to life under its sometimes brutal new rulers.

A young girl trembles in the shadows of what was once her home.
Avis is homeless and penniless, and with no family left alive, she is forced to become a ward of Richard, the Norman lord who has taken her home. But when King William decrees that Norman lords must marry Anglo-Saxon women Avis must make a terrible choice.
Either marry the repulsive Richard or take a chance on another Norman, Melville, a man she has never met.

Soon she realises that survival in a time of turmoil and war depends on of putting aide the prejudices of the past And if she can do so, kingdoms and hearts can still be among her 'Conquests'. 

Emily Murdoch is a medieval historian and writer. Throughout her career so far she has examined a codex and transcribed medieval sermons at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, designed part of an exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum, worked as a researcher for a BBC documentary presented by Ian Hislop and worked at Polesden Lacey with the National Trust. She has a degree in History and English, and a Masters in Medieval Studies, both from the University of York. Emily is currently working on a new four-part Regency novella series, two of which are now published. 

You can follow her on twitter and Instagram @emilyekmurdoch, find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/theemilyekmurdoch, and read her blog at www.emilyekmurdoch.blogspot.co.uk.