The Steward Who Stayed

Brother Anselm has been sent to Warden Abbey to find out where the money went. He is twenty-five, freshly professed, and confident that an estate run by a widow for fifteen years will have something worth finding.\n\nRowena of Chester is thirty-nine, the steward of those estates, and has been balancing the abbey's accounts since before Anselm took his vows. She has nothing to hide and does not intend to be pleasant about it.\n\nHe audits her books and finds only arithmetic. She takes him to the fields and shows him what arithmetic costs.\n\nWhen a crop failure forces the abbey to choose between land and tenants, one of them has to break a rule, and it is not the one everyone expects.\n\nA Medieval Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance of ledgers, litigations, and the eleven quiet years that followed.