In this sweeping, emotional love story, Lynn Kurland takes us back to the thirteenth centuryand all the passion and magnificence of medieval England

Colin of Berkhamshire knows two thingsthe pleasures of warring and that brides do not want him. Two years ago his bride-to-be, Alienore, fled and hasnt been seen since. Yet his father keeps foisting prospects on him. The latest seems to do nothing but faint.

Alienore of Solonge knows two things as wellthat fleeing not only Colin but also her scheming stepmother was the right thing to do. Yet as a knight in disguise she constantly fears discovery. At this...

In this sweeping, emotional love story, Lynn Kurland takes us back to the thirteenth centuryand all the passion and magnificence of medieval England

Colin of Berkhamshire knows two thingsthe pleasures of warring and that brides do not want him. Two years ago his bride-to-be, Alienore, fled and hasnt been seen since. Yet his father keeps foisting prospects on him. The latest seems to do nothing but faint.

Alienore of Solonge knows two things as wellthat fleeing not only Colin but also her scheming stepmother was the right thing to do. Yet as a knight in disguise she constantly fears discovery. At this point, shes not sure whom she fears more, the Butcher of Berkhamshire or her evil stepmother.

Through a bizarre twist of fate, she ends up journeying with her chargeColins latest intendedto England, where Alienore finds herself not only in the Butcher of Berkhamshires garrison, but being made over into a knight by him personally. She thinks her life cannot worsen.

Until she begins to fall in love with him