Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence

Jean Gill

Dec 2020 · The Troubadours Quartet Book 1 · The 13th Sign

About this ebook

The Troubadours: like Game Of Thrones with real history

Estela de Matin would give anything to be a troubadour. She becomes a pawn in a perilous game of queens, reliant on her golden voice and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Scarred by the crusades, Dragonetz los Pros now fights with sword and song for a more enlightened world, where faith has no colour. When he meets the runaway girl in a ditch, the whole world changes.

Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

1150: Provence 

Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on singing true for Aliénor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for her tutor’s judgement. Dragonetz knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands. 

Will their secrets kill them both? Dragonetz and Estela are an explosive combination, which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.

Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill's spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.

Book 1 of the award-winning Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet

'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review

'Historical Fiction at its best.' Karen Charlton, the Detective Lavender Mysteries 

Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Chaucer Awards

Ratings and reviews

interesting story, although I suspect the ladies were given more important roles than would have been true in the depicted time (but I don't know, just guessing! ). Still, nice story :)

About the author

Jean Gill is an award-winning Welsh writer and photographer living in the south of France with two scruffy dogs, a beehive named 'Endeavour', a Nikon D750 and a man. For many years, she taught English and was the first woman to be a secondary headteacher in Wales. She is mother or stepmother to five children so life was hectic. Join Jean's special readers' group at jeangill.com for private news and exclusive offers.