Susan Charnley's debut novel is a captivating medieval romance, filled with emotion, drama, and well-drawn period detail. Sir Haven de Sessions is one of King Edward's most loyal subjects—a warrior reputed to be a true and perfect knight, beloved by the ladies and admired by the lords—but he takes no pleasure in his current task for his sovereign. A longtime friend, Roger Dreyford, who had been his companion on Crusade, has just been executed for treason, and Haven has been entrusted to bring the traitor's wife to face the king's justice. Since Roger implicated his wife in his own treachery, Haven expects to find that, beneath her beautiful surface, Genvieve Dreyford is a greedy, manipulative shrew. Yet, in the course of the trying journey that they share, he sees instead the lady's clear devotion to her five-year-old son, her patient guidance of her difficult young sister-in-law, and her spirited response to adversity that reveals an unexpected wealth of generosity and good humor. As an honorable knight, Sir Haven soon finds himself torn between his oath to his king, his duty to protect the innocent—and a potentially disastrous desire to claim the lovely Genvieve as his own.