Vintage Soul is the second book in THE DECHANCE CHRONICLES - This is the introduction and first three chapters of the book. This book, plus My Soul to Keep & Others, and Kali's Tale (with some bonus material) was just released in a digital omnibus edition: http://www.amazon.com/DeChance-Chronicles-Omnibus-Books-II-ebook/dp/B00O5THEVK

Dijon, Duchy of Burgundy, 1474. Alienor Bernard, seventeen, is facing a dull future. Unable to find a husband, she is to be sent to a convent. Raised as a knight, her unusual education is everything her potential suitors do not want in a wife. But she is exactly what Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy is in desperately looking for, and the deal he has to offer might lead her to a fate much worse than death...