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The Summer of the Danes

by Ellis Peters Book 18 in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series.

First published 1991

4.5(1,436)

April 1144. Brother Cadfael travels into Wales on church business, leaving Shrewsbury and the familiar tensions of the English civil war for the borderlands of his youth. His mission becomes complicated when he encounters a young woman determined to escape a marriage arranged for political advantage.

Cadfael is drawn into local rivalries in which family claims and Welsh princely politics are closely connected. What begins as an ecclesiastical journey develops into a test of loyalties among people who must decide whether marriage, kinship and alliance are obligations that can be imposed by force.

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