Overview
There in the depths of a forest, the beautiful and fiercely independent Countess Synnovea suffers a rude interruption in her travels--the arrival of a band of brigands! Then, out of nowhere a royal officer rides to Synnovea's rescue-- only to disappear again before she has even thanked him.
Who was he? Synnovea gets the answer a few hours later at a roadside inn--when she inadvertently steps naked into a bathhouse pool that's already occupied by her rescuer! By the time she learns he is Sir Tyrone Rycoft, a British soldier of fortune, she has been piqued by his bold, swaggering ways--and has aroused in him a passion he had long since forsworn.
Though neither of them can know it yet, form now on their fates will be inseparable, during intrigues at court, wars abroad--and one great explosive scandal.
Who was he? Synnovea gets the answer a few hours later at a roadside inn--when she inadvertently steps naked into a bathhouse pool that's already occupied by her rescuer! By the time she learns he is Sir Tyrone Rycoft, a British soldier of fortune, she has been piqued by his bold, swaggering ways--and has aroused in him a passion he had long since forsworn.
Though neither of them can know it yet, form now on their fates will be inseparable, during intrigues at court, wars abroad--and one great explosive scandal.