β Scribed by Terri Brisbin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A Midsummer Knights Romance: A Tournament World of Chivalry, Intrigue, and Passion
Summer, 1193.England is in turmoil, and agreat tournament is scheduled near the border of Scotland and England.The greatest knights and lords from England, Scotland, Ireland, and France have gathered to compete for a great prize. There will be celebrations and jousts and feasting.It will an exhibition of chivalry and warrior skills, a breeding ground for treasonand for love.
Thomas Brisbois of Kelso has only one goal when he arrives at the tournament--to defeat the only knight who ever bested him in battle. If he succeeds, the Scottish king will return to him his lands, his honor and his life. He has little interest in other prizes, and even less when he learns that the lord for whom his rival fights has included a daughter among the spoils at stake in their contest-- a lovely daughter with no desire to play the pawn, or to see her father's champion win. She is a distraction, all the more after she explains her own ideas about which knight shall have her, and how and when.
Lady Annora de Umfraville may be a pawn in her fathers plans but she has no intention of letting that happen without a fight of her own. When she sees the frank desire in Thomas gaze for her, she makes her own offershell help him win if hell let her go after he beds her. Her plans go awry when she discovers the truth of the man beneath the armor. The man who had lost everything and struggles to regain his life.
When the only man she can trust is known for his dishonorable past, what could go wrong?
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