The Dove in the Eagle's Nest: A Romance, Fiction and Literature Classic By Charlotte Mary Yonge! AAA+++

The latter half of the 15 th century was a time of political consolidation under the rule of young Maximilian. Even isolated barons found themselves threatened with attack unless they willingly submitted to his much-stronger rule.

The turmoil and trials, as well as the glory of this era, are seen through the eyes of Christina. Christina has been abandoned by her wayward father and left in the tender care of his brother and sister-in-law in Ulm . There she enjoys a life of peace and prosperity. This tranquility is shattered when Christina’s father returns to take her to care for the baron’s ailing daughter. She is hastened away to an isolated castle known as the Eagle’s Nest high in the mountains some distance from Ulm .

The reader will quickly realize that Christina is the dove as she faces sickness of body in her patient, and, more fearfully, the sickness of soul that has no human remedy.

Through much sadness and a providential turn of events, God uses His loom of loving sovereignty to weave a situation in which young Christina becomes the lady of the castle and the mother of twins.