Britomart: A Dark Historical Fantasy
Manon Van Daal
A Renaissance tournament circuit ruled by blood and desire.
A love that can survive only after truth.
In 1525 Wales, when Lady Britomart Scudamore’s family faces ruin, she makes a forbidden choice. She cuts her hair and rides into Europe’s brutal tournament circuit disguised as a man. As Sir Winmar, she fights for gold, survival, and a future denied to women, earning victory through steel, endurance, and violence.
Each win brings power.
Power awakens hunger.
This is a dark retelling of Britomart, the legendary female knight of The Faerie Queene, reimagined in a world where magic corrupts what it touches and desire is never neutral. An enchanted brooch meant to secure love instead tangles attraction with domination, binding intimacy to control, coercion, and shame.
By day, Britomart breaks lances and bones.
By night, she navigates secrecy, power, and want, taking lovers of all genders while hiding the truth beneath her armor.
Among her rivals stands Artegall, an undefeated Moorish knight from Spain, bound by honor and justice, whose attraction begins before he knows who—or what—she truly is. Others offer protection, leverage, or possession. Every alliance carries a cost. Every shortcut leaves a scar.
As war closes in and magic tightens its grip, Britomart must confront the truth she has been love taken through force is indistinguishable from captivity. To survive, she will have to choose between power and freedom—and decide whether intimacy can exist without domination.
BRITOMART is an explicit, psychologically dark fantasy romance
a woman disguised as a knight
bisexual romance and queer desire
an interracial enemies-to-lovers dynamic
Renaissance-era combat, magic, and political violence
erotic power exchange with real consequences
This book is not a comfort read.
It is a story about agency, obsession, and love that refuses to be owned.
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