Review: The next generation makes its mark on the Montbryce saga.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
This sweeping family saga continues with the family of Ram and Mabelle Montbryce forging their own stories.  Like their parents, their road to love is not an easy one.  A terrible secret from a previous book in this series "Conquering Passions" is finally revealed and nothing will ever be the same for the Montbryce family.With William the Conqueror dead, Ram Montbryce can finally relax and oversee his holdings as the Earl of Ellsmere.  Or can he?  Unfortunately his bastard son Caedemon is stirring up enough trouble to rile the new king.  Shamed to learn of his Norman parentage he runs off to join the Crusades leaving behind not only his new Montbryce family but his pregnant wife as well.  Ram leaves his comfortable castle, ignores his arthritic knees and chases after his bastard son on his doomed quest.There is a part in this book where the author really shows her grasp of humanity when Caedemon, stuck in Turkey on his way to the Holy Land, begins writing a journal which he hopes will survive him so his abandoned wife might know him better.  After the bloody battles, the treachery, and the hardships he writes this simple line.  "I'm beginning to like the taste of olives."  With that simple line he becomes human again.  A young man far from home with many regrets and few options."A Man of Value" is another winner for me and I can't wait to continue with the series.