I see from the current selling price the book is quite rare, but if you are lucky as I was to find it at your library it's worth taking the time to check this one out. That said, it was a highly enjoyable romp through the 12th century and a very entertaining read. A cast of characters and their various names and titles would have helped quite a bit and enhanced my appreciation of the story. At times I lost track of who was who when characters from the first part of the book returned back to the story and the author didn't provide enough background to refresh my memory, and I got lost more than once until I fell back into the groove.

While I very much enjoyed this book, at times it was a bit too busy and fast paced for my tastes. Julitta also soon finds her hands full with a castle and mutinous servants allowed to run to ruin by the previous lord of Brentborough (Adam's uncle), a thieving seneschal, invading armies of Scots, a perilous climb down ocean cliffs, a mysterious death or two and more as 'Red' Adam and his lady banter their way through it all to find true love in the end. Julitta is none too thrilled with the match, but sparks soon fly between the two as Julitta's uncle Lord William and his cronies conspire to support young Henry in his plan to oust his father Henry II and rule England instead. Adam takes Julitta back to his keep bent on rape, but the ever resourceful Julitta knocks him out with a stool and when he's sober Adam marries her to assuage her damaged honor. Lady Julitta is mistaken for a peasant and is accosted by a drunken 'Red' Adam de Lorismond, the new lord of Brentborough. Long out of print though highly acclaimed, Red Adam’s Lady is a true classic of historical fiction along the lines of Anya Seton’s Katherine and Sharon Kay Penman’s Here Be Dragons.Ī fast paced bawdy romp through 12C England. And the love story in it is an unusual one, since Julitta won’t let Adam get closer than the length of her stiletto. Its vivid details give the reader a fascinating and realistic view of life in a medieval castle and village. It is a story of civil war and border raids, scheming aristorcrats and brawling villagers, daring escapes across the moors and thundering descents down steep cliffs to the ocean.

Red Adam’s Lady is a boisterous, bawdy tale of wild adventure, set against the constant dangers of medieval England. Then, to the astonishment of all, he marries her.

Though she fends him off, keeping her virginity, he has sullied her honor. On one of his nights of drunken revelry he abducts Julitta. Red Adam is the lord of Brentborough castle-young, impetuous, scandalous, a twelfth-century hell raiser. And her liege, whom she despises, is intent on rape.

Red Adam's Lady by Grace Ingram