Title:
Entrusted
Author:
Allegra Gray
Series:
Relic Guardians
Genre:
Historical Young Adult
Release
Date: September 8, 2015
Publisher:
Silverthorne Entertainment
Print
Length: 85K
Format:
Paperback and Digital
Print
ISBN: 978-0692486146
4
To
protect her country’s future, she’ll have to commit treason…
ENTRUSTED by
Allegra Gray is a stunning historical Young Adult masterpiece of
suspense, hope, and determination. This story follows orphaned Audrey
as she’s tasked with keeping ancient relics safe from tyrannical
hands and their unholy deeds. With the help of a charming adventurer,
Tobias, Aubrey must do all she can to protect the relics she’s been
entrusted to guard…even if it costs her life.
Synopsis:
Orphan
Audrey Thorndale longs for the peaceful life of a convent, but with a
younger brother to care for and England's religious houses falling
one by one to Henry VIII's Reformation, she'll have to find another
way to serve God and country. The Abbot of Glastonbury, aware of
Audrey's dilemma and loathe to see the great treasures of his abbey
looted and destroyed, suggests a plan that could save Audrey, the
relics, and even the future of Britain...but if she agrees to it,
she'll have to commit treason.
Second
son and sometime adventurer, Tobias Seybourne has never left an
opportunity unexplored. He’s won the favor of the king, and is
aiming for knighthood, when Abbot Whiting offers him the chance of a
lifetime—partner with Audrey, and protect England’s greatest
legend. Most importantly? Do it without ever giving the king a reason
to suspect more devious purposes simmer beneath Tobias’s charming
façade.
With
help from the abbot, Audrey and Tobias set in motion a plan to ensure
that when the abbey walls crumble, one particular treasure will be
safely hidden elsewhere.
But as
the abbot points out, the king’s minions keep close account of
their plunder, and the contents of Glastonbury’s repository are
well documented.
With
the king’s men bearing down fast, someone must take the fall…
Excerpt:
“You are worried
that Glastonbury is in peril, and the treasures it holds will end up
in the king’s coffers.”
“Yes—and no.”
He eyes me. “It’s more complicated than that. You must not repeat
anything you are hearing right now.”
“No, Father
Abbot. Never.” If there is one thing I am, it is loyal.
“When I combine
what I know—what I, myself have seen and heard—with what the
monks who have already lost their homes tell me, I see a future in
which certain relics of Glastonbury never make it to the king’s
coffers, but are destroyed instead.” He shakes his head sadly. “The
idea that the holy relics would go into the king’s hands was
disturbing enough, but to destroy them? Sacrilege.
“Again, I must
emphasize the importance of not repeating this conversation—to
anyone. Not even Sam. The Treason Act is too loosely interpreted
these days to take chances.”
I gulp, cursing
myself for giving in to curiosity. Now it is my hands that tremble. I
should tell him to stop, that I don’t want to hear any more, but my
tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth. I should never have asked
what was troubling him. And yet, I have the sense we have set on an
irrevocable course, and I must see it through.
Finally, I pry my
tongue loose. “I appreciate your honesty, Father Abbot.”
“Should
Glastonbury fall, the treasures that can be measured in gold and
silver will most certainly find a new home—whether it be the royal
treasury or a pilferer’s stash. It is the others that trouble me.”
He rubs his
temples, as though even thinking hurts. I begin moving about the room
again, straightening things, dusting surfaces…the little, normal,
everyday movements that I know, somehow, provide the backdrop of
comfort that Abbot Whiting needs right now.
“You remember
those visitors from Walsingham? They informed me that the shrine
there, the shrine to the Virgin, which the king himself has visited,
has been destroyed. The statue of the Virgin removed, the shrine
itself despoiled, and the buildings looted. The same happened at
Roche Abbey this summer.”
Finally, it sinks
in, and I know exactly which of Glastonbury’s relics—one with no
value in gold, but still of immeasurable worth—is troubling him so.
I stop dusting. My
tongue, now loosened, does not have the sense to stop.
“If Glastonbury
falls, what will become of King Arthur?”
About Allegra Gray:
Allegra Gray grew up with her nose in a book and her
head in the clouds—that is, when she wasn’t focused on more
practical things like, say, learning calculus. Perhaps all those
stories inspired a spirit of adventure, because at the age of
seventeen she embarked on a career journey that has (so far) included
serving as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, grad school at Virginia
Tech, teaching English, and managing defense contracts in the Middle
East. The best thing about this breadth of experience? When she tried
her hand at writing novels like the ones she’d always loved, she
recognized at once that she’d found a true passion. Her forthcoming
series, The Relic Guardians, is genre-bending mainstream/historical
suspense, inspired by her long-held desire to unveil things obscured
by the mists of time. Allegra is also the author of four historical
romances, including the “Daring Damsels” trilogy of Nothing
But Scandal, Nothing
But Deception, and Nothing
But Trouble.
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