The Dowager’s Daughter Venturous

The Dowager’s Daughter is a romantic adventure and murder mystery story set in a medieval-like fantasy world. It’s also included in the award-winning collection The Venturous Tales by Isabella Berdyna Zysk.

Kimberly is the only child of the dowager countess of Arnaby’s second marriage. In a quest to find the widow and orphan of one of her mother’s Arnaby grandsons believed killed in battle, Kimberly is rescued from a kidnap attempt by Roderic, the captain of a marshal’s troop. Their meeting seems providential as Roderic assiste the Arnaby family in ways Kimberly could never have expected.