In the harsh, turbulent Middle Ages, lovely Lady Melyssan remains as she always has been sweet, timid, and content to be alone. But in a desperate move to resist the advances of the dreaded king, she claims to be married to his worst enemy, Lord Jaufre de Macy, the legendary Dark Knight. Seeking temporary shelter in Jaufre's abandoned castle, Winterbourne, she is unprepared for the fierce, angry warrior who returns to confront her. He is a man as rough and unforgiving as the Welsh border lands he rules and she is as gentle and innocent as a new day. But neither Jaufre's dark heart nor Melyssan's innocent one can resist the love that is their destiny nor protect them from the danger drawing ever closer...

LADY GENEVIEVE DE MACY HAD A KINGDOM AT HER FEET, BUT SHE WANTED MORE... Her father was Lord Jaufre de Macy, the powerful Dark Knight. Without Mercy. Her childhood playmate had been Henry II, Plantagenet King of England. The noblest knights of Britain vied to do her bidding. With all that, Lady Jenny, restless and reckless, fell in love with a scheming dishonored outcast. Perfect in his tempting masculine beauty, Amaury de Lainville was irresistible, and Jenny drifted ever more deeply into an illicit passion that threatened to ruin her whole future. Until she met - and believed she hated - another kind of man, one who made her see - perhaps too late - how dangerously close she had come to the abyss.