num_pages: 266
description: A WIDOW'S LAST HOPE...In the spring of 1449, widow Cristiana Helyngton has been kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery - as her late husband's duplicitous relatives seek to obtain control over her lands and children. To secure her freedom and save her daughters, Cristiana must use a secret entrusted to her by her husband as he was dying - a secret that could bring down those lords nearest the king and destroy those most dear to her.Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery must decide where her loyalties lies - to the crown, to the truth, or to England's peace. And whatever she chooses, in the end her help may be of little use against the ruthless men threatened by the secret on which all of Cristiana's hopes depend..."The suspense builds steadily ... in this well-wrought tale involving murder, treason, and 'layers of ambition and betrayal'." - Publishers Weekly"[Frazer] uses many real historical persons in her books, deftly and flawlessly weaving them into the story. Her fictitious characters are also well-defined, and Cristiana will break the reader's heart." - Romantic Times
language: English
title: The Widow's Tale
titlecomplete: The Widow's Tale (Sister Frevisse, #14)
genres: Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Medieval, Crime
ratings_count: 647
series: Sister Frevisse
publisher: Berkley