title: Beguiled
author: Borchardt, Alice
description: Just as her sister, Anne Rice, makes vampires and witches come alive, Alice Borchardt brings the turmoil and splendor of medieval France to breathtaking life in a spellbinding epic tale of magic, passion, and destiny....
  
  Elfin is a woman of the pagan Forest People. Owen is the young Bishop of Chantalon. Amid the brutal onslaught of Viking invaders, they found each other, and their great love triumphed over violence. But now Elin's gift of "sight" warns of a new danger: a Norseman called Hakon who threatens her joyous union with Owen-and the future of her unborn child.
  
  Set against a world of swords and splendor, treachery and honor, Beguiled is a mesmerizing saga of a time long ago--an age of luminous heroes, grand deeds, dark magic, and an unconquerable love.