Anne Millar
ASIN: B00ILC9VYK
Publisher: AcuityPublishing Limited
Pages: 287
England, in the years following the death of the hero king Henry V, offers a harsh climate for love.
In a country riven by the rivalries of the Plantagenets the minority of a boy king affords little protection from the avarice of these descendants of Edward III. Particularly to a vulnerable young heiress with the misjudgement to fall for an embittered veteran of the Hundred Years War.
For Richard Saxton and Elizabeth Hawley nothing can extinguish their attraction, not even their own refusal to acknowledge the spark that smoulders and flares between them. Richard and Elizabeth may quarrel and bicker to express their feelings, but they don’t care about the social distance between one of the most eligible heiresses in Plantagenet England and a low born captain of archers. But the land and wealth that Elizabeth’s marriage carries with it are of critical concern to those who would ...