Ten Weeks That Changed England Forever

A prequel to the series – what Hildegard did first – TEN WEEKS THAT CHANGED ENGLAND FOREVER

This is a prequel to Hildegard’s story. I intend it as a gift to her many fans who ask, why on earth did she become a nun? She is in her early thirties when the series starts with HANGMAN BLIND but in this, her back story, she is still only twenty-two, a widow with two small children. So why did she become a nun and get mixed up in affairs of state as a detective and a spy? Meet her in the turbulent London of 1376 when John of Gaunt and the barons are trying to silence the Commons who are demanding an end to corruption. The realm is on the brink of civil war. It will not be much later when the streets are running with blood in the so-called Peasants’ Revolt as ordinary men and women make a cry for freedom. At the same time Hildegard is trying to reclaim her lands in the Welsh Marches but at Westminster she witnesses the brutal beginnings of the long and savage battle for freedom when a king will die for the Crown.