Defy not the heart
(Book)

England, 1192. Lady Reina de Champeney's cerulean eyes gazed with scorn as they fell upon the golden giant of a man before her. This was the knight Ranulf Fitz Hugh, her kidnapper, who was pledged to deliver her into the worst kind of bondage - marriage to the craven Lord Rothwell. But Reina was no acquiescent girl to accept fate's whim. To save herself from the union forced upon her, she offered Ranulf a bargain: Become my husband yourself. In exchange for your protection, I will make you a great lord. The nuptial bed was part of the bargain. But Reina believes she is not the kind of woman that her husband wants. For the passion that consumes them both cannot long be denied -- even though gravest peril surely awaits them on the heart's trail to a destined and turbulent love.

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