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|title=Winter Siege

|author=Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman

|publisher=Bantam Press

|date=October 2014

|website=http://www.arianafranklin.com/

|summary=The horrors of the other English civil war (Stephen & Matilda) are merely a backdrop to this story that could have been more powerful than it is. Instead we have a 'rescue romance' as the battle-hardened mercenary Gwil, takes on the protection of a young girl brutalised by his former comrades.

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In the autumn of 1180 the Abbott of Perton Abbey is dying, and like any man who has lived through tumultuous times, particularly one who might have had a close-up view of those times, he decides to set down his own version of events. To this end he calls a scribe to him.