William and Madeleine are deeply in love--but love may not be enough
to win the day
Madeleine Hazell and William de Bulmer have been married a year. She is
a healer, a wise woman, practical, intelligent, and blunt. He is not
only an ex--monk, but an ex--abbot, a man accustomed to authority, a
gifted administrator, at home with figures--but less capable in matters
such as shutting up chickens for the night.
They are deeply, irrevocably in love. And every conversation may become
a battlefield that leaves both of them wounded and resentful.
When William's former abbey, St. Alcuins, suffers the loss of their
cellarer, the current Abbot Father John doesn't know how to handle the
rents and provisions. He is a gifted physician and a capable leader, but
estate management is beyond his competence. With a sense of rising panic
he turns to his friend, the man who renounced his vows for love, the
former Father William--only to find that his own pastoral skills may be
required in matters matrimonial.
The Breath of Peace is the seventh novel in The Hawk and the Dove
series and explores themes of mutual submission found in Ephesians
5:21-33.