A Knight’s Tale series by Gabriella West (Books #1-2)
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Overview: Born in California, grew up in Ireland, moved to the Bay Area in 1988.
I’m the author of six LGBT-themed novels, including "Time of Grace" and "Elsie Street." My latest book is set in England in the 13th century. It’s called "A Knight’s Tale: Kenilworth" and explores the events of the Second Barons’ War through the eyes of a squire, Will, living in Simon de Montfort’s household.
Genre: Historical Romance MM
Kenilworth (#1)
Warwickshire, England, 1260. Will Talbot is leaving home at fourteen to spend the next few years in training at nearby Kenilworth Castle as a squire. Kenilworth is the home of the ambitious Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who is married to Eleanor, the youngest sister of King Henry III. Will’s adjustment to life at the castle is made easier by his growing love for Stephen, the young chaplain’s clerk he shares a spartan chamber with.
But in the years after Will and Stephen are unexpectedly separated, Will’s life becomes more complicated. Despite his vow to reunite with Stephen once knighted, he allows himself to grow closer to Simon, the Earl’s charming and charismatic second son, whom he serves as a squire. As Simon’s intentions toward him become clearer and impossible to resist, and the political stakes around the Montforts grow ever higher, Will is faced with a painful choice.
Set against the tense backdrop of the Second Barons’ War of 1264-67, and the battles of Lewes and Evesham, Will must navigate a world that he wasn’t prepared to enter and decide for himself what, and who, is really worth fighting for.
Thanks to m from MM/LGBT Group
Montargis (#2)
France, 1266. Will and Stephen are safely ensconced at Montargis Abbey, a Dominican convent in a placid town two days’ ride south of Paris, where Lady Eleanor has chosen to live out her days in peace and seclusion with her young daughter. Will and Stephen fall into a pleasant routine of chopping wood and beekeeping, while Wilecok cheerfully keeps the small household running with his work in the kitchen. It’s in many ways an idyllic life, and one that Will could not have predicted. And when Kenilworth Castle falls after a long siege, it seems that the war with the English Crown that the Montforts spearheaded has well and truly ended.
But the sudden reappearance of Simon, as he and his younger brother Guy both drift back separately after escaping house arrest in England, brings a complexity to Will’s life, as he is still passionately attracted. Even as he and Stephen grow closer and more deeply in love, the shadow of Simon periodically falls over their relationship. A sudden, horrific act of murder in the year 1271, Will’s 25th year, brings the problem of Simon into deeper focus. In the aftermath, Lady Eleanor commands a reluctant Will to journey to a castle in southern Tuscany to visit her probably dying son. It’s here that he will learn a devastating truth about Simon’s misdeeds at Kenilworth before he arrived there, a truth that Will has not wanted to face, and that changes everything.
This sequel to A Knight’s Tale: Kenilworth spans another six years in Will and Stephen’s lives together, and ends in the South of France, where the mystery of Stephen’s tragic past is finally laid to rest.
Thanks to R from MM/LGBT Group
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Kenilworth (#1)
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Montargis (#2)
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