Could her passion overpower her pride? Ambyre, lovely young handmaiden of Aelfwyn, former Queen of Mercia, felt nothing but burning hatred for the warlike Danes who had invaded the land. When she was mistaken for Aelfwyn and kidnapped by Raff Olaf...
To beautiful young Alix Beauchamp, Philip de Saines was an enigma, a chevalier who refused to defend his honor, a man who arrogantly ignored the rules of courtly love. Betrothed to his brother Julian, Alix knew Philip could have no place in her heart...
He came to her in the darkness of midnight, a stranger hired to perform an outrageous act: Before the night was through, he must sire a child upon the virginal widow of the wealthy Earl of Highcrest. Caught in a tangled skein of love and deception, b...