And if the Church discovers her secret, Regeane will burn at the stake. The most notorious, her depraved uncle and guardian, will not scruple to betray her to the Church unless she aids him in his sinister schemes. Possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years, and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself, Regeane is a shapeshifter: woman and wolf, hunter and hunted.īetrothed by Charlemagne's command to a barbarian lord she has never seen, Regeane is surrounded by enemies. But unknown to those plotting against her, the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. Regeane's regal blood renders her an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. Now, into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a beautiful young woman distantly related, through her dead mother, to Charlemagne. In this new historical romantic fantasy of stunning originality and scope, Alice Borchardt breathes life into a bygone age, brilliantly recreating a sensuous, violent world-and the men and women whose grand ambitions, betrayals, and passions shape the era in which they live and die.ĭecadent Rome at the dawn of the Dark Ages is mired in crumbling grandeur.

The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt