Alanna Ann, taught to dance from babyhood by mischievous brothers, is best by difficulties such that friends of her grandfather, who continue to take an interest in her, come to say, “What has happened to her now?” Stefano at 18 becomes her best friend; he is the son of her mother’s father’s friend, sent to help search for her when she, at 12, is captured by border reivers and then held for ransom by a greedy minor lord.
She marries by command of the Queen to guard the border and her husband, who is engaged in secret work for the crown, becomes enamored of his chief suspect. Neither Stefano nor Alanna Ann, who both esteem and seek truth and righteousness above all things, can accept the hypocrisy and what is taught by churches and men; they agree to read the law of Scriptures as well as the laws of men and seek the way for themselves. Alanna Ann’s husband’s paramour involves them in conspiracies that result in Alanna Ann’s trial for bigamy before Parliament and, later, her capture and enslavement in the Middle East.
Escaping at great cost, rescued and married to the one she loves, still nothing can go right for either, or so it seems. Yet in the process they become bound in love, filled with truth and righteous and she as a famous dancer, he as a much-sought-after sailing master and swordsman, overcome no matter what comes their way.
She marries by command of the Queen to guard the border and her husband, who is engaged in secret work for the crown, becomes enamored of his chief suspect. Neither Stefano nor Alanna Ann, who both esteem and seek truth and righteousness above all things, can accept the hypocrisy and what is taught by churches and men; they agree to read the law of Scriptures as well as the laws of men and seek the way for themselves. Alanna Ann’s husband’s paramour involves them in conspiracies that result in Alanna Ann’s trial for bigamy before Parliament and, later, her capture and enslavement in the Middle East.
Escaping at great cost, rescued and married to the one she loves, still nothing can go right for either, or so it seems. Yet in the process they become bound in love, filled with truth and righteous and she as a famous dancer, he as a much-sought-after sailing master and swordsman, overcome no matter what comes their way.
