Silver Thorns — Amanda Harte

AMID THE FIRE AND FURY OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE,

He is called the Silver Knight -- a magnificent warrior who returns from the Albigensian Crusades in glory and triumph to wed a woman he's never seen...

HE WOULD DEFEND THEIR LOVE TO THEIR LAST BREATH...

Within the stone walls of Mirail Castle, she dreams of a courtly lover who will woo and win her: But the stranger who arrives is an arrogant, battle-scarred knight.

As the trumpets of battle sound, a man and a woman betrothed since birth become engaged in a passionate war of wills. Marguerite de Mirail sees this unyielding knight-errant as her enemy; Alain de Jarnac sees his exquisite bride as someone he must tame -- and bed. Now, in a land of ancient hatreds and darkest treachery, death could await them both...unless a wary knight learns the art of love -- and a willful lady surrenders not just her pride, but her heart.