They were both outcasts with a harsh decree-and in the brink of the shared destiny of passion!

With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackelt fled towards the woods-and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king’s edict. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a son, and her sorrow in her are Montgomery’s squire.

But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man’s wishes be blind? And how soon-even being a blood feud raged between the Montgomerys and the Chatworths, as furious swords clattered in the name of family honor-one woman’s appreciate would make all the difference…one woman’s like would inflame a hero’s passion, contact a king’s pity, and increase a song of compliment in every British heart.