OMG. I read this book as a teenager. It was one that Nan had borrowed from the library.

Jimenez?

The Infidel

Across a land seething with mortal strife and religious conflict, Jimena Gomez begins the journey from cloistered gentility to passionate courage. Ordered to marry the bold, rebellious warrior who slayed her father – and would be remembered down the centuries as El Cid – Jimena’s tempestuous path leads her into the arms of ‘The Infidel.

Kidnapped in vengeance, imprisoned in a paradise of sensual beauty, she is drawn to all she has been taught to believe is evil…’The Infidel’. One woman’s odyssey amidst a magnificent pageant of love and war.

It was only years later, when living in Gibraltar amongst Spanish peeps, that I realised (after reading it again) that she was Not “Jim – in – ez “but “Him – in- ez.“

Stupid AS Fluff :o(