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A darkly twisted psychological thriller exploring the legend of Lady Godiva’s naked ride.
Having survived a grave illness to become one of 11th-century England’s wealthiest land-owners, Godgyfu of Coventry (Lady Godiva) remains forever grateful to the town whose pa-tron saint worked such miracles. She vows to rebuild Coventry’s abbey and better the lives of its townsfolk. But the wider kingdom is descending into political turmoil, and her husband, Earl Leofric, starts to break under the strain. Godgyfu finds her own plans unravelling the moment she meets Thomas, a Benedictine novice with perverse secret desires. Three lives be-come dangerously entangled in a shocking web of ambition, voyeuristic lust, and horrid ob-session. Can Godgyfu escape the monk’s menacing wiles and Leofric’s betrayals to secure her future in a changing kingdom? Perhaps, but first she faces a dark test of wills leading her perilously closer to a legendary ride…
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Thank you, Christopher M. Cevasco and The Coffee Pot Book Club
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About the Author
Christopher M. Cevasco was born in New Jersey and spent a memorable decade in Brooklyn, New York, but he feels most at home in medieval England, Normandy, Norway, and Green-land. A lifelong passion for history and fiction led him to earn degrees in Medieval Studies and English and later to embark upon a writing career that merges these two loves.
Chris was the founding editor of the award-winning Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction from 2003 to 2009. His own short stories appear in such venues as Black Static, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Distant Echoes (Corazon Books, UK), and the Prime Books anthologies Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War and Zombies: Sham-bling Through the Ages.
A long-time member of the Historical Novel Society, Chris currently serves on the society’s North American conference board as registration chair for the upcoming 2023 conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Chris lives with his wife and their two children in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Author Links
Website: https://www.christophermcevasco.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cevasco_m
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.m.cevasco
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-M-Cevasco/e/B09F6SDZ3X
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/christophermcevasco
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Book Links
Universal Amazon Link: https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/42bfc6a8-aea1-11ec-819a-33e167107f84/amazon
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w?ean=9781590217146
Lethe Press: https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p646/beheld_godiva.html#/
Thank you so much for hosting today’s tour stop for Beheld: Godiva’s Story.
All the best,
Mary Anne
The Coffee Pot Book Club
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