Despite his wealth and position, he has lived the disciplined life of a warrior monk, with just one long-term mistress in his past. Adrian has regained his lands, become Earl of Shropshire, and built the impregnable Warfield Castle. She becomes unable to sleep or pray and finally receives a vision of a sword-wielding archangel blocking her path to a holy life.įive more years pass before the two characters meet again. As she prepares to take her final vows, Meriel finds herself growing uneasy. Adrian replies harshly and then departs, and Meriel never realizes he was angry with himself for desiring a nun. She admires Adrian’s fighting and tells him so afterward. Six years later, Meriel de Vere, a young novice at a nunnery, witnesses a vicious ambush of Adrian and his men. Though Adrian had hoped to serve God in peace and light, he must now face not only the violent outside world, but the darkness within himself. While he looks like a silver-haired angel, Adrian has a dark side. It’s a doubly dark moment because Adrian entered the abbey at the advice of his mother, who feared his resemblance to her vicious father. Adrian’s destiny is forever altered when he vows to avenge his loved ones. Fifteen year old Adrian de Lancey, a nobleman’s youngest son, is preparing to take a monk’s vows when he learns his family has been massacred. Putney’s only medieval begins under the omen of an eclipse of the moon whose light is devoured by shadow on the night of a Christmas tragedy. Uncommon Vows is my favorite among Mary Jo Putney’s books, more romantic to me than even the wonderful Shattered Rainbows.
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