The Exiled: Anne Trilogy Book Two

I couldn't wait to start this book! It wasn't as steamy as the first, but the plot thickened, and more details came to light and the storyline was fantastic. I was so dissapointed when I came to the end of the first book because I wanted to know what happened! This was a great find.

I loved this sequel to the Innocent. I couldnt put it down, finished it mid way on a flight. Im now looking fwd to reading number 3!!

As an avid reader of British historical fiction, I've read good and bad within this genre over the last 30 years. This book and it's predecessor are among the best that I have encountered. "The Exiled" surpases "The Innocent" as a page-turner. The author's attention to historical detail is fascinating and her characters are interesting and well thought out. Anne and Edward have the ultimate connection. If only we could all find someone like that!

The first book in this series, The Innocent, sent me straight to the store to buy the second book, The Exiled, before I had even finished the first book. I could not wait to see what happened to the main characters. I await the final installment of this wonderful historical fiction series. Yeah!

In the latter half of the fifteenth century in Brugge, Belgium, Anne de Bohun remembers what it is like to be a servant, but now enjoys the economic freedom of being ward to wealthy English merchant Sir Matthew Cuttifer. Knowing she probably can never go home though she misses her lover, Matthew's household makes it easier to raise her infant son Edward without his father, King Edward IV who cannot acknowledge his offspring. Actually Anne is more of an apprentice than a ward as she learns the merchant business. She begins to successfully buy and sell including the trading of paintings, but also gains the wrath of her all male rivals who resent competition with a woman. Her enemies multiply in number and in intensity seeking anything to put her back in her place. She knows that if they learn the secret of her child's blue blood, death would stalk them. This sequel continues the story of Anne started in the entertaining THE INNOCENT. The story line provides a captivating perspective to the merchant world of 1560s Belgium where the heroine's male adversaries see her as an abomination that must be thwarted. Anne is a fabulous protagonist who serves as the focus of the tale almost reading like a work of biographical fiction. Posie Graeme-Evans writes a terrific medieval historical that will have her audience clamoring for the final novel in this stupendous saga. Harriet Klausner