He explains that he and her betrothed are half-brothers the real Lucien was the heir to their father, but was betrayed by his bastard half-brother Etienne, who left Lucien for dead and stole his identity.
She and the Black Wolf feel instant attraction to the other, though initially each tries to hide it by antagonizing the other.
Outraged to have been taken captive, Servanne is taken to his group's hideaway inside a dilapidated abbey. His associates include kindly former monk Alaric FitzAthelstan, the mischievous dwarf Sparrow, and the secretly female Gillian "Gil" Golden. While en route to his castle Bloodmoor Keep, Servanne's entourage is waylaid she and her old maid are taken captive by forest outlaws led by the Black Wolf of Lincoln, a man claiming to be the true Lucien Wardieu. In the forests of Lincoln, England, the young widow Lady Servanne de Briscourt is journeying to marry her powerful betrothed, Lucien Wardieu, Baron de Gournay. Canham only decided to create it after experiencing a recurring dream about a damsel in distress being rescued by two bowmen a friend convinced her to translate the idea into a book, and after further research, she decided to make Through a Dark Mist about a new invented character who could conceivably have been the father of the famous outlaw. For many years she had desired to write her own version but thought it rather "brazen" to try to rework such a famous story into her own words. The novel was published by Dell Publishing in 1991.Ĭanham was a lover of the Robin Hood legend since viewing the interpretation seen in the Errol Flynn films. The heroine, Lady Servanne de Briscourt, finds herself caught in the middle when she is betrothed to one but falls in love with the other. The story centers on the rivalry and enmity between two brothers each claiming to be one man – Lucien Wardieu, Baron De Gournay. Through a Dark Mist is a 1991 historical fiction novel by Canadian author Marsha Canham, the first instalment of her "Medieval" trilogy inspired by the Robin Hood legend set in 13th-century England.
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