Ciaran Timberlane is a dishonored knight, living in exile. Amie de Langois is a woman in hiding from her brutal husband, living on Timberlane's land. Timberlane has nothing to lose by defying the law to protect Amie-nothing except his heart...
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Four years of bloodshed is enough for Ciaran Tamberlane. Even though he had pledged his life to serve God and the Knights Templar, he can't take the slaughter of innocents any longer, so he leaves the Holy Land and the Templars, disgraced, excommunicated, and branded a traitor.
While in exile in England, Ciaran stumbles across a massacre of an innocent village in which only one woman is found alive. Ciaran brings her to his castle, where his seneschal, Marak, a gifted healer, manages to save her. But Amaranth de Langois would have preferred death, since her brutal husband, Odo de Langois, has sworn to find and severely punish his disobedient wife.
Now to get to Amie, Odo must first cross Ciaran, who discovers that there are some people for whom it is still worth fighting.
Ciaran Tamberlane, excommunicated by the church and branded a traitor, finds his life of solitude interrupted by the arrival of Maranth de Langois, a spirited beauty on the run from her brutal husband, who asks for his protection within the walls of his fortress and in his arms. Original.
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Ciaran Timberlane is a dishonored knight, living in exile. Amie de Langois is a woman in hiding from her brutal husband, living on Timberlane's land. Timberlane has nothing to lose by defying the law to protect Amie-nothing except his heart...
From Booklist
Four years of bloodshed is enough for Ciaran Tamberlane. Even though he had pledged his life to serve God and the Knights Templar, he can't take the slaughter of innocents any longer, so he leaves the Holy Land and the Templars, disgraced, excommunicated, and branded a traitor.
While in exile in England, Ciaran stumbles across a massacre of an innocent village in which only one woman is found alive. Ciaran brings her to his castle, where his seneschal, Marak, a gifted healer, manages to save her. But Amaranth de Langois would have preferred death, since her brutal husband, Odo de Langois, has sworn to find and severely punish his disobedient wife.
Now to get to Amie, Odo must first cross Ciaran, who discovers that there are some people for whom it is still worth fighting.
Ciaran Tamberlane, excommunicated by the church and branded a traitor, finds his life of solitude interrupted by the arrival of Maranth de Langois, a spirited beauty on the run from her brutal husband, who asks for his protection within the walls of his fortress and in his arms. Original.