Review: Lady of Eve:  A Medieval Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
Facing one's sin and relying on God's grace not to repeat that sin is one of the major themes of Tamara Leigh's Lady of Eve. A clean-read rewrite of one of her first secular best sellers, the book is a sequel to Lady at Arms. It involves the brother of Lady Lizanne Balmaine Wardieu, Gilbert, and the unwanted, unloved Lady Graeye Charwyke--a woman with a birthmark that her mentally unbalanced father considers the mark of the devil. Sent to a convent at age seven, Graeye is about to take her final vows as a nun when God sends a very unusual answer to her prayers. She knows that life in a nunnery is not the calling of the Lord in her life, and she impulsively  makes an errant choice to insure she can never go back. Graeye is no sooner settled into her home than she is ordered back to the convent by her father's enemy Gilbert Balmaine to resume the calling thrust upon her once more. Graeye and Gilbert's story of overcoming prejudice and hatred with faithful love and patience is tastefully done, and is one of action and intrigue. Ms. Leigh knows how to tell a story, flesh-out her characters in a realistic way, and transport you back into the Medieval world.