num_pages: 640
description: She was a Lady destined for an arranged marriage. He was a Squire sworn to defend a desperate cause. They loved each other over years of longing  in a world that kept them agonizingly apart.EVERARD OF GUILLOME  the young squire who rescues a beautiful girl from rape only to ravish her himself. Though he thinks her merely a peasant he finds himself falling hopelessly in love.LADY THAISA  of the streaming golden hair and pale creamy skin whose sparkling eyes blue as gentians shine with a love to which she can never fully abandon herself. She is rushed into marriage with the old violent  and madly jealous  Gilbert of Barbosa.HUGH OF JAFFA  Everard's master a libertine who enjoys all kinds of women. But the only one he truly loves is his beautiful cousin...MELISANDE  a strong ambitious beauty determined to become Queen at any cost. Even a lovely marriage to a much older man...
language: English
title: Fountains of Glory
publisher: Fawcett