Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping is a medieval romance novel. Yeoland, the heroine, is out for vengeance against Fulviac, the man whose army devastated her home, family, and life. But, as a woman, she has pity, and pity does not mix well with fury, or with the man who kidnaps her for his own plans. Excerpt: She bowed down suddenly, her hair falling forward like a cataract, her eyes large with a tearless hunger. Pointing to the man on Jaspar's knee, she looked into the harper's face and spoke to him. «Quick, the truth. I fear it no longer.» Her voice was toneless and hoarse as an untuned string. She beat her hands together and then stood with her fists pressed over her heart. «Quick, the truth.» The old man turned the body gently to the grass and still knelt at the woman's feet. «It is Jean,» he said, with great quietness, «Jean the swineherd. He is dead. God rest his soul!» She bent forward again with her arm extended, her voice deep and hoarse in her throat. «Tell me, who is it that has slain my father?»