In Chapter 39 of Ivanhoe, Bois-Guilbert visits Rebecca in her cell, trying to convince her to flee with him rather than risk burning at the stake. "Bethink thee, were I a fiend, yet death is a worse, and it is death who is my rival." What if Rebecca's response was slightly different, and Death took her at her word? Would it change the fate of Rebecca and Brian?

Who was he before the woman he loved betrayed him? A story of Bois-Guilbert and Lady Adelaide. His love would transform him, uplift him, and inspire him to great feats of honor and chivalry, but in the end, it was the same love that stole it all away. An Ivanhoe fanfic.

Fate is cruel and fortune unkind to those they do not favor. Two unfortunate people, who are opposed in everything but their common misery, are thrown together in a brutal game for life and death. There can be no winner in a war of attrition, there can only be sorrow and agony. This is nowhere more perfectly demonstrated than in the tragedy of the Sinner and the Jew.

Rebecca lost one love in Wilfred of Ivanhoe, but found another in his squire. But will she finally find happiness, or will she once again be forever parted from the man she admires?

Some nine years after the events of the novel, Ivanhoe is with King John's army in Normandy. A new plot is laid against him, and an old acquaintance hinders it. (Gen, canon pairings; warning for historical character death and canonical anti-Semitism.)