Squire's Hazard

How do you overcome the loathing lust and bitterness threatening you and your family’s honour?. It's 1363 and in Steyning Castle Sussex Dickon de Bohun is enjoying life as a squire in the household of Earl Raoul de Fougère. Or he would be if it weren’t for Edwin de Courtenay who’s making his life a misery with his bullying threatening to expose the truth about Dickon’s birth.. At home in Meonbridge for Christmas Dickon notices how grown-up his childhood playmate Libby Fletcher has become since he last saw her and feels the stirrings of desire. Libby seeing how different he is too falls instantly in love. But as a servant to Dickon’s grandmother Lady Margaret de Bohun she could surely never be his wife.. Margery Tyler Libby’s aunt meeting her niece by chance learns of her passion for young Dickon. Their conversation rekindles Margery’s long-held rancour against the de Bohuns whom she blames for all the ills that befell her family including her own servitude. For years she’s hidden her hunger for revenge but she can no longer keep her hostility in check.. As the future Lord of Meonbridge Dickon knows he must rise above de Courtenay’s loathing and intimidation and get the better of him. And surely he must master his lust for Libby so his own mother’s shocking history is not repeated? Of Margery’s bitterness however he has yet to learn…. Beset by the hazards triggered by such powerful and dangerous emotions can Dickon summon up the courage and resolve to overcome them?. Secrets hatred and betrayal but also love and courage – Squire’s Hazard the fifth MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLE.