Where Loyalties Burn

Love Can be the Deadliest Rebellion

In a Wales fractured by conquest, betrayal, and rival princes, it is not only warriors who shape a kingdom’s fate, but the women who stand beside them.

Gwenllian was born to a royal destiny, not a rebel’s life. Yet when she chooses Griffith, a dispossessed prince with a perilous claim, she binds her heart to a future of ambushes, exile, and uprising and every choice she makes threatens to ignite new bloodshed.

In the halls of Gwynedd, her mother Angharad senses doom gathering like storm clouds. Visions of her sons marching to their deaths torment her nights, while political intrigue consumes her days. Trapped between loyalty to her husband, fear for her children, and the tightening grip of Norman ambition, she must decide whether obedience will save her family or destroy it.

Across Wales, other women of the royal houses carry their own unspoken burdens: guarding secrets that could shatter alliances, enduring marriages forged for power, and navigating a world where men’s wars leave scars on every hearth.
As Welsh unity fractures and Norman forces advance, Gwenllian, Angharad, and the women around them must choose where their loyalties truly lie. Some will sacrifice everything. Some will take up the sword. And some will discover that love can be the deadliest rebellion of all.

Epic in scope yet intimate at its heart, Where Loyalties Burn is a vivid tale of passion, ambition, and the fearless women whose courage shaped the destiny of medieval Wales.

"A powerful, deeply human saga where courageous Welsh women redefine love, loyalty, and destiny," The International Review of Books.