The Deadly Favour

<p>The House of Lothwold has been at war with the House of Malwarden for years. A truce is called and hostages from both houses must be exchanged in order to ensure it is kept.</p><p>Fun-loving flirtatious Hawise of Lothwold is keen to avoid the nunnery and volunteers to go to Castle Malwarden as a hostage hoping to make a second marriage afterwards. Meanwhile her friend Bessy yearns to go to a local convent to be with her lover.</p><p>In a world full of dragons plots and treachery both women soon get what they want - but not what they had imagined.</p><p>A romantic fantasy adventure set in a quasi-medieval world The Deadly Favour is the first book in The Woldsheart Chronicles by Ruth Danes.</p>