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    Berengere
    Berengere
    Berengere
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    Berengere

    By Dayle A. Dermatis

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    When Berengere’s husband, the king of Coraise, goes away crusade, his brother Jean assumes the role of Regent—and makes Berengere and her family “guests” in his chateau.

    Berengere knows they’re really prisoners, but there’s nothing she can do except try to make their appartements more pleasing by painting murals of the outside world.

    Are the murals a means of escape…or is Berengere slipping into madness?

    In “Berengere,” bestselling author Dayle A. Dermatis skillfully draws you into a rich fantasy world full of dark intrigue and desperate magic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoul's Road Press
    Release dateJul 31, 2017
    ISBN9781386226123
    Berengere
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    Dayle A. Dermatis

    Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.* * *I value honest feedback, and would love to hear your opinion in a review, if you’re so inclined, on your favorite book retailer’s site.* * *For more information:www.dayledermatis.com

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      Berengere - Dayle A. Dermatis

      Berengere

      Berengere

      Dayle A. Dermatis

      Soul’s Road Press

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      About This Book

      When Berengere’s husband , the king of Coraise, goes away crusade, his brother Jean assumes the role of Regent—and makes Berengere and her family guests in his chateau.

      Berengere knows they’re really prisoners, but there’s nothing she can do except try to make their appartements more pleasing by painting murals of the outside world.

      Are the murals a means of escape…or is Berengere slipping into madness?

      In Berengere, Dayle A. Dermatis skillfully draws you into a rich fantasy world full of dark intrigue and desperate magic.

      Berengere

      JEAN KISSES ME on each cheek, his hands hot through the linen of my cotehardie where they grip my upper arms.

      Sister, he greets me. You are a welcome guest in my home. You, and your entourage, of course. This will be a safe haven to you while your husband, my brother, is away. If you need for anything, you must tell me immediately.

      Freedom, I snap, but not aloud. It would do no good. Every person in the receiving room, from land-owning noble to councilor to courtier to guard, knows my position here. I am not a guest. I am not a refugee fleeing danger. I am a political prisoner. Jean and his Court can attach any name to my status, but even as they do, they are aware of the façade. Guest to Jean. Prisoner to Reynaud’s supporters. Pawn.

      Until my husband the King of Coraise returns, his brother has me easily trapped in a web of political niceties.

      I will not leave this chateau until Reynaud returns. And Jean, claiming the title of Regent, fervently hopes that return will never come to pass.

      WE ARE ALL free to roam the grounds under supervision: myself; my younger sister, Margeaux; Reynaud’s grand-mère, Arabella; our ladies-in-waiting Veronique and Sophie. Also with us Gérard, an aging man-at-arms; and François, a young page fostered into our family before Reynaud left. The entire chateau is essentially ours to wander, although once we leave these appartements we will be accompanied by one or more of Jean’s most faithful guards. The keep and its grounds are provisionally ours, but nothing further than that. I will be invited—in fact, expected—to attend State banquets, as befitting my title of Queen, because Jean had not yet wed.

      The grounds include a formal garden. I can see the edges of it if I lean out against the stone windowsill, between the wooden shutters flung open to admit the summer breezes: the outline of the hedge, the occasional errant trailer of mauve

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