Fire and Steel

by Anita Mills

  I admit openly to literary license in the use of this character, although I believe him capable of acting as I have portrayed him. The real Robert de Belleme was captured after years of vicious raiding in Normandy and spent his final years blinded and castrated, incarcerated in Henry’s dungeons. In my story, I leave it to the reader to decide how my Robert of Belesme ended.

  The character of the Conqueror’s youngest son, Henry, is portrayed as realistically as I could make him. He is found variously in this book as King Henry and Duke Henry, used interchangeably after the Battle of Tinchebrai, because many Normans holding lands in both England and Normandy would owe him allegiance in both capacities. To avoid further confusion, he is the only Henry in the book.

  About the Author

  Anita Mills lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, four children, sister, and seven cats in a restored turn of the century house. A former English and history teacher, she has turned a lifelong passion for both into a writing career.

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