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The Servant’s Tale

5 Ratings

3.8

Series

1 of 3

Duration
8H 7min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

THE PLAY'S THE THING, TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF A KILLER . . .

The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's when a troupe of penniless players comes knocking at the gate. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot.

As the players rehearse for the nativity, ancient scandals lick at their heels and dark desperation haunts Meg's steps as she finds cruel feudal laws threatening to strip away the lands that would support both her and her sons in the wake of her husband's death.

Dame Frevisse must thrust herself between these violent feuds, awakening dreams of her youth that she had believed long buried. Her very faith may be threatened, but Frevisse knows she must unravel a path to true salvation . . . before false raptures of lust bring ruination upon them all.

© 2020 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781541440159

Release date

Audiobook: February 28, 2020

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