Castle of refuge, Melanie Dickerson
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Castle of refuge, Melanie Dickerson
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Grades 10-12, Thomas Nelson
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Castle of refuge
Oclc number
1238129528
Responsibility statement
Melanie Dickerson
Series statement
A Dericott tale
Summary
In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her lifeFourteenth-century England. Audrey has suffered her sister Maris's cruel, jealous behavior all her life. An act of malice made their father, a viscount, sent Maris to a convent, but Audrey was still left with scars. Three years later he is determined to marry off his damaged daughter, and Maris is returning. Audrey runs away, but is attacked, injured, and taken in at Dericott Castle to be nursed back to health. Working as a servant in the castle, she falls in love with Edwin, Lord Dericott, who lost his arm several months earlier. When the man Audrey's father wants her to marry comes looking for her, Audrey and Edwin must make a decision about whether or not love is truly worth trusting. -- adapted from jacket
Target audience
adolescent
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- Love -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Novels
- Disfigured persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Historical fiction
- Knights and knighthood -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Christian life -- Fiction
- Middle Ages -- Juvenile fiction
- Nobility -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Christian fiction
- Nobility -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaways -- Fiction
- Disfigured persons -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult literature
- Knights and knighthood -- Fiction
- Middle Ages -- Fiction
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- Love -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Novels
- Disfigured persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Historical fiction
- Knights and knighthood -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Christian life -- Fiction
- Middle Ages -- Juvenile fiction
- Nobility -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Christian fiction
- Nobility -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaways -- Fiction
- Disfigured persons -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult literature
- Knights and knighthood -- Fiction
- Middle Ages -- Fiction
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- Author1
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