Crouchback (The Welsh Guard Mysteries)

<p><strong>**Crouchback is a medieval word derived from cross-back and indicates participation in a crusade**</strong><br /><br />April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there--or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys the childhood friend she lost twenty years before. Rhys had never intended to return home either but a lifetime of war has deposited him right back where he started--impoverished and owing service to Catrin's older brother.<br /><br />With Wales fallen irrevocably to England and not knowing whom else they can trust Catrin and Rhys join forces against the treachery and intrigue rife within the half-built Caernarfon Castle. And when the killer strikes again this time within the royal court the pair race to uncover his identity before he touches the king himself--or his infant son.<br /><br /><em>Crouchback </em>is the first book in <em>The Welsh Guard Mysteries.</em></p>