Robin Hood (excuse me, Le Renard) is running around Eleanor’s land stealing the King’s taxes. Plus, a landless knight doesn’t want an estate? Or legitimate heirs? What century is this supposed to be? His experience had taught him that women were not worth the inevitable heartache.” Oh, lord, NOT ANOTHER ‘wah some lady in my past had feelings’ man. Hugh “knew he should feel honoured at having such an heiress bestowed upon him, but he didn’t want a wife. Why wouldn’t King John have told his most loyal knight this before sending him off? Both Hugh and Eleanor are SHOCKED that they are to marry each other. She and Hugh are so busy making angry faces at each other that she literally doesn’t listen to the reading. The priest reads the missive in front of the entire hall. But she didn’t want to know the contents of King John’s missive.” What are you, five? Eleanor muses that she doesn’t really know why she has kept Hugh outside for three days, and that it has “incensed” him, which “was not something she had intended. Hugh de Villiers narrates to us that he’s been at Tallany Castle with a message from King John for the lady of the castle, Eleanor, and she hasn’t let him in for three days. Let’s run through the first forty pages or so (I had a Kindle arc, so my page count is fuzzy): I’m sorry to tell you that the cover is the only thing I can praise about this dull, predictable, and amateurish book. The Rebel Heiress and the Knight is a medieval rollercoaster of a novel.I have never seen a medieval cover before that accurately depicted a heroine with her hair covered, and that raised my hopes that The Rebel Heiress and the Knight would be an immersive, well-researched experience. A real treat for readers of medieval romance. 
The chaos and dangers during King John's later reign are made very clear, but not overpowering the storyline, and the story progresses at a fast pace that has you turning the pages. Eleanor the rebel, whose secret could lead to her execution. Characters are well-defined: Hugh the steadfast follower, who stands by his king despite of what he sees around him. The author has clearly done her research, and you get a real sense of place and time. I thoroughly enjoyed this fast ride through medieval northern England.
But she acquiesces and marries Hugh, even though she carries a secret with her that he must never know. Her first husband mistreated her, and she'd managed very well on her own. Shocked, but also intrigued by the beautiful, headstrong widow, Hugh does as he is bid.Įleanor of Tallany does not want to wed, but finds she has no choice. When Hugh de Villiers is sent north, to visit the lady of Tallany Castle about some outlaws that steal money from the king's tax collectors, little does he know the real reason King John sent him there – to marry the widow.
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