Falconwood and Gilded Frames: A Defiant Tale of Falcons, Family, and Freedom

A widowed noblewoman rises before dawn to hunt with Astra, her fierce peregrine falcon. Her crumbling estate needs repairs, her household needs food, and her three daughters need every advantage society can offer. To preserve their futures, she carefully maintains the appearance of gentility—even as she crosses property lines, bends the law, and returns home spattered with mud.

Then a sharp-tongued stranger confronts her in the woods, and a royal carriage approaches her neglected gates. The encounter threatens to expose more than an illegally caught rabbit. With convention pressing in and her family’s security at stake, she must navigate courtly expectations, uncertain intentions, and a world determined to measure women by obedience, beauty, and marriageability.

Falconwood and Gilded Frames is a spirited historical fairy-tale reimagining about motherhood, class, courage, and the cost of respectability. Rich with falconry, woodland atmosphere, domestic wit, and a heroine who refuses to remain confined by rules written for her, it follows women learning to trust their own strength—and to become far more formidable than society expects.