Daughter Of Lir: Diana Norman

Although she's been raised in the richest, strictest convent in twelfth-century France, Finola is Irish and thus the Pope sends her to take charge of the powerful Abbey of Kildare. But her French upbringing is at odds to the complex political power struggle of the clans around her, and one prince especially becomes her enemy - Dermot of Leinster. Within months she is an outcast - to be rid of her, Dermot arranged her rape and she has been publicly humiliated by the Church. All she has left is her desire for revenge. With the help of an English knight she makes her way to her birthplace in western Ireland where an academy of warrior women teach her to fight. She gains friends and a love of her country. When Ireland is threatened with invasion by the Normans, Finola builds her own spy network to oppose Dermot, the Normans and the machinations of Henry II's spymaster - but one of the lords she's fighting is the man she loves.