SummaryThe lady and the commoner...
Lady Christiana Fitzwaryn was not opposed to marriage. But
she demanded to be married on her own terms, not as
punishment for a romantic indiscretion, and especially not
to a common merchant. Yet she was in for a shock when she
met David de Abyndon. For she was confronted by no ordinary
merchant but a man of extraordinary poise and virility. He
was unaffected by their difference in social status. And
even less affected by her well-thought-out arguments against
their upcoming betrothal. Instead, it was Christiana who
felt uneasy in the presence of this naturally lordly man
behind whose cool blue eyes she sensed the most
uncompromising of passions.
David de Abyndon understood Christiana's dilemma, for he too
harbored a secret pain. How could he tell her that there
was more to this arrangement than met the eye? How could he
tell her about his deal with the king—a deal that meant
he had all but bought Christiana sight unseen?
What's more, now that he had seen this beautiful, spirited
woman, how could he convince her that the love she sought
was not in the callow knight she had romanticized but in the
flesh-and-blood arms of the man who may have bought her
body—but in the bargain lost both his heart and soul?
(originally published in June 2000)
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