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Medieval Trilogy #1
Enchantress
Dear Reader, "Enchantress" is a special book to me as it allowed me my first glimpse into the beauty of medieval Wales. With this book I created a very magical place -- my own unique world of castles, dark heroes, strong women, fleet horses, and rumors of curses. I found the experience fascinating. Writing the book consumed me.
The heroine, Morgana of Llanwynn, is a beautiful, headstrong girl whom many consider a sorceress. She's known to see into the future, a gift she considers a curse. One night when the moon is high and the mist rises off the sea, Morgana experiences a vision of darkness and deceit. She sees a dark and deadly warrior appear and hears the omen rushing in her ears: There will be death. It comes to the house of Wenlock from the North.
Days later, Garrick of Abergwynn, the dark lord of a vast castle to the north and the embodiment of the fierce warrior appears. Seductive and brooding, he demands that Morgana help him locate his missing son.
Morgana is loath to trust this destroyer from the north...and yet she finds it impossible to resist him.
"Enchantress" is a story close to my heart, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
-- Lisa Jackson
The heroine, Morgana of Llanwynn, is a beautiful, headstrong girl whom many consider a sorceress. She's known to see into the future, a gift she considers a curse. One night when the moon is high and the mist rises off the sea, Morgana experiences a vision of darkness and deceit. She sees a dark and deadly warrior appear and hears the omen rushing in her ears: There will be death. It comes to the house of Wenlock from the North.
Days later, Garrick of Abergwynn, the dark lord of a vast castle to the north and the embodiment of the fierce warrior appears. Seductive and brooding, he demands that Morgana help him locate his missing son.
Morgana is loath to trust this destroyer from the north...and yet she finds it impossible to resist him.
"Enchantress" is a story close to my heart, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
-- Lisa Jackson
388 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Lisa Jackson
273 books9,641 followersLisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.
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December 9, 2015
This book was such crap, and such a disappointment because I love the plot line. Garrick, a powerful baron, commands Morgana, the daughter of one of his vassals, to help him find his missing son using her psychic abilities. Even though Garrick has promised her to his cousin, he falls in love with her. The love story was completely not believable. Morgana and Garrick don't interact enough, and the scenes they have together are boring and flat. Even though he's the one who recruited her to help him, he mocks her any time she claims to have had a feeling or vision. The ONLY reason he seems to fall in love with her is because she's soooooo beautiful as only heroines in bad romance novels can be over-the-top beautiful. As for Morgana, she's such romance novel cliche; spirited, pure-hearted, and more and more in love with a guy who never gives her a single reason to love him. What total garbage. It's been a while since I read a romance novel where I was eyeballing how many pages were left even before I was halfway through.
December 13, 2011
I have to agree with Rhapsody's review. This book held a lot of promise but did not live up to it. The heroine was too wishy washy for my tastes. If your going to give someone the power to see into the future and help people, then at least make her strong enough to carry it off. And the baron, tho he held huge potential for an alpha male, was also to mild for me. He was falling in love with her but couldn't bring himself to believe in her powers until the very end. The end was also a big disappointment. Why does it seem that authors take so much time writing the book and then rush the ending? Don't they realize that the ending is almost more important than what preceded it? Its almost as if they are bored with the book they are writing and then rush the end just to get it over with or meet some word quota or something.
April 21, 2025
Enjoyed!
I very much love books about seeing of things to come. So, I very much enjoyed this story. The heroin was a very strong, stubborn, caring, handy and one with nature of things to come. Hero was strong, also stubborn, trusted. He was wanting his son back. So he was talked into getting the heroin to help find him. He in turn promised her to his cousin for marriage. She agrees to help find his son, but rebels against marrying his cousin.
This is funny, treaty, sad, mystery and a little thriller. Very good. I wish still wrote historical romance stories with mystery. Thanks
I very much love books about seeing of things to come. So, I very much enjoyed this story. The heroin was a very strong, stubborn, caring, handy and one with nature of things to come. Hero was strong, also stubborn, trusted. He was wanting his son back. So he was talked into getting the heroin to help find him. He in turn promised her to his cousin for marriage. She agrees to help find his son, but rebels against marrying his cousin.
This is funny, treaty, sad, mystery and a little thriller. Very good. I wish still wrote historical romance stories with mystery. Thanks
September 13, 2023
A promising premise but the book seemed to get in the way of itself and definitely felt dated even for a republication. The characters weren't particularly compelling and it just didn't resonate for me, though I'm sure it does have its audience. It's just not me.
January 17, 2021
The story line was a little predictable. Good read though.
October 18, 2016
1st in a Wonderful Trilogy and a Captivating Welsh Medieval Romance!
This was my first by Lisa Jackson but it was not my last. Her writing is superb, her feel for the medieval period is genuine, her plot is interesting and the characters engaging.
ENCHANTRESS captured me from the beginning. It's the first in a medieval trilogy that takes place in Wales. Jackson weaves in myth and legends while still retaining the fundamental belief the characters have in the God of heaven, so as to capture the feel of another time and place where people were influenced by superstition and beliefs in forces of nature. Each in the trilogy is well written and quite wonderful. I recommend you read them in order as they are related and characters in the first show up in the last (see list below).
Set in late 13th century Wales, ENCHANTRESS is the story of independent, headstrong Morgana of Wenlock, who has the gift of sight and visions she inherited from her grandmother. With her gift she has helped others, finding lost souls and even saving some from death. Now she will be called upon to help the handsome widower Baron Garrick Maginnis of Castle Abergwynn find his missing son.
Morgana dreads this "lord of the north" because she's seen a vision of such a lord bringing death. When the Baron comes to collect her and she is caught disobeying her father, her sire banishes her from Wenlock and gives her to the Baron (her father's liege lord), with the freedom to choose whom she will wed. Miserable, Morgana leaves her home but vowing to return. The adventure is only beginning for this wonderful girl.
There's treachery at Abergwynn and the man to whom Garrick would give Morgana—his cousin and a senior knight—is a man Morgana dreads.
You won't regret reading this one. It's a well told, captivating romance, a tale of love between the headstrong, noble girl and the bitter lord desperate to save his son even as greed and treachery swirl around them. I highly recommend it.
The Welsh trilogy:
Enchantress
Kiss Of The Moon
Outlaw
This was my first by Lisa Jackson but it was not my last. Her writing is superb, her feel for the medieval period is genuine, her plot is interesting and the characters engaging.
ENCHANTRESS captured me from the beginning. It's the first in a medieval trilogy that takes place in Wales. Jackson weaves in myth and legends while still retaining the fundamental belief the characters have in the God of heaven, so as to capture the feel of another time and place where people were influenced by superstition and beliefs in forces of nature. Each in the trilogy is well written and quite wonderful. I recommend you read them in order as they are related and characters in the first show up in the last (see list below).
Set in late 13th century Wales, ENCHANTRESS is the story of independent, headstrong Morgana of Wenlock, who has the gift of sight and visions she inherited from her grandmother. With her gift she has helped others, finding lost souls and even saving some from death. Now she will be called upon to help the handsome widower Baron Garrick Maginnis of Castle Abergwynn find his missing son.
Morgana dreads this "lord of the north" because she's seen a vision of such a lord bringing death. When the Baron comes to collect her and she is caught disobeying her father, her sire banishes her from Wenlock and gives her to the Baron (her father's liege lord), with the freedom to choose whom she will wed. Miserable, Morgana leaves her home but vowing to return. The adventure is only beginning for this wonderful girl.
There's treachery at Abergwynn and the man to whom Garrick would give Morgana—his cousin and a senior knight—is a man Morgana dreads.
You won't regret reading this one. It's a well told, captivating romance, a tale of love between the headstrong, noble girl and the bitter lord desperate to save his son even as greed and treachery swirl around them. I highly recommend it.
The Welsh trilogy:
Enchantress
Kiss Of The Moon
Outlaw
March 18, 2013
This book completely took me by surprise. I'm not normally a fan of historical or paranormal type books- but the synopsis of this drew me in.
I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this! I don't want to say much about the plot, but I closed the book admiring Morgana's strength and determination. I highly recommend you give it a chance- even if you don't typically enjoy historical or paranormal romances. This one isn't your "typical" one.
I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this! I don't want to say much about the plot, but I closed the book admiring Morgana's strength and determination. I highly recommend you give it a chance- even if you don't typically enjoy historical or paranormal romances. This one isn't your "typical" one.
August 7, 2015
Morgana of Llanwynn is a young headstrong beautiful girl who many calls a sorceress for she is known to on see into the future when I night she gets a vision of a dark and deadly warrior from the north that will but her family in danger. Days later, Garrick of Abergwynn comes to seek out Morgana to help locate his missing son. As she no option but to help him she develops feeling for him but what about her visions for doom........
May 7, 2021
Another great book by Lisa Jackson.
August 23, 2013
This book was great
September 28, 2014
I was disappointed with this book. Don't really like the authors style. Probably won't read anymore of her books.
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