Terri Lewis
Terri Lewis fell in love with medieval history in college. Not the dates or wars, but the mysterious daily lives of the people. Finally, two sentences in a book bought at Windsor Castle led her to write her debut novel, “Behold the Bird in Flight, A Novel of an Abducted Queen.”
She has published in Denver Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review among others. In addition to acceptance to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she has taken juried workshops at Lighthouse with Laura van den Berg, Emily Rapp Black, and Rebecca Makkai. A finalist for The Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize (Nonfiction) and shortlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, she won the Bethesda Literary Festival Award and the 2025 Miami University Press Novella Prize. She reviews for The Washington Independent Review of Books.”
About the Book:
Behold the Bird in Flight, a novel of an Abducted Queen
A Romantic French Girl. A Malevolent Husband. An Abduction. A New Queen.
Isabelle d’Angoulême plans to marry for love. When she falls for Hugh, a French nobleman, he consents to marry her, but only for her dowry. She longs for more. Hoping a jealous man will fall in love, she flirts with a king. The flirtation backfires: King John (of Magna Carta Fame) abducts and marries her. Now trapped in cold, warring England with a malicious husband, Isi must hide her yearning for Hugh and find her own power. If she fails, she won’t live to return to her beloved.
“Wow. What a story spinner author Terri Lewis is!”” — Reading on the Brink, Bookstagram
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“…an incredible book filled with action and spectacular imagery.”” — goodreads Review”