Title: Gallows wedding
Description: A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner, and stumble along a fateful
collision towards a harrowing climax.
Subjects: Outlaws, Married people, romance, historical, medieval, History, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Henry VIII, 1509-1547