Excerpt Twelve: Sometimes
betrayal is closer than you think
Lucienne
strolled to the bed and stroked her daughter’s hair. “She looks so much like
me. But she has Kinnon’s hair.” Her smile set an arrow in Melisende’s heart.
Brushing
aside her doubts, Melisende stepped forward. “Do not be absurd, Lucienne. Her
hair is much like mine, and Raul’s is dark as well.”
Lucienne
tossed her head. “You do not seem to recall Arielle was born early—or so I told
Raul.”
“Lucienne,
did you have relations with someone whilst we lived in Randon?” Melisende
demanded. “Did you marry Raul knowing you were already enceinte?”
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Heir
to a lairdship, Kinnon Macrory is driven to prove his worth by fighting the
English on the battlefields of France. His dreams of heroic valor are destroyed
by the realities of war—the atrocities visited by fellow soldiers on the very
people he is sworn to protect. Three years in a French prison for a crime he
did not commit leave Kinnon longing for the one thing of beauty in his war-torn
life—a young woman of great kindness and wisdom named Melisende.
Melisende
de la Roche struggles to stay one step ahead of soldiers who would imprison her
for helping an injured Scotsman wrongly accused of treason. She finds refuge in
her uncle’s shop—until a chance encounter sends her fleeing into the unknown
once again, haunted by the beguiling friendship with the troubled young
Scotsman she is certain she will never see again.
Determined
to find the woman of his dreams, Kinnon returns to France, only to discover nothing
more than a trail of clues to Melisende’s whereabouts. Their reunion will open
the doors to passion, but half-truths and lies from the past could destroy the
one thing they both are willing to fight for—each other.
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