Redemption, Volume 2: A Queen's Conscience Redeemed

1200 a.d. An uncertain future lies ahead for newlywed Isabella Taillefer, England’s new queen. Her husband, King John I of England, sends her across the stormy English Channel to meet a handful of souls loyal to the crown. Isabella brings her two ladies-in-waiting and her most trusted advisor, Claudius Bonvoy. He and Isabella’s father, Count Aymer Taillefer, are secret heretics and have been trading forbidden apocrypha with John Plantagenet, enough texts that could get them killed. Isabella continues in her father’s footsteps, carrying his legacy of heresy. As Isabella steps onto English soil, she is greeted by a cold, stoic, and unfamiliar landscape and a courtly web of intrigue and mystery. She uncovers King John’s shocking plans to unite with the Muslim and Jewish worlds, a revelation that thrusts her into the heart of his schemes. Realizing her danger, Isabella must quickly learn the art of political survival to navigate this treacherous new world. She meets Father Joseph, a priest who teaches her the unlimited capacity of the esoteric realms. Everything she thought she knew about the world was turned inside out: she must pass each test in stride to stay alive. She learns the ancient, forbidden arts of prophecy and divination. Her growth in the ethereal realm helps her navigate the surrounding physical perils. She makes a valuable ally in her mother in-law, Eleanor Plantagenet, although Eleanor’s past haunts her conscience. Eleanor’s underground enemy lingers in the shadows of Isabella’s coronation—an enemy so stealth that even the Church won’t punish them. Eleanor is aging and doesn’t have much time to prepare Isabella. Will Eleanor be able to train Isabella to be a better queen? Before it is too late?