Lady Aveline realized that at the age of twenty most women her age were mothers server times over, cloistered nuns or already dead. Instead she lived quite happily among the holy sisters of Thorney designing magnificent tapestries. So impressive was their needlework that the sisters were commissioned to create a tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of their own Saxon people - overseen by the new high sheriff of London, Renard d'Agounville. This man was her enemy, yet Aveline found that beneath the hard-muscled exterior of this enemy beat the heart of a caring man. Renard himself could thing of nothing else after only one glance at Aveline's hair of fire and eyes office. As their dangerous passion for each other grew, secret revelations not only threatened their happiness, but also tore at the very foundation of the nation around them.
Author
Maura Seger was born in 1951. She and her husband, Michael, met while they were both working for the same company. They married after a whirlwind courtship that might have been taken directly from romance novel. She credits her husband's patient support and good humor for helping her fulfill the lifelong dream of being a writer. Published since 1982, Maura Seger is a prolific novelist, who also wrote under many pseudonyms over time: Maeve Fitzgerald, Anne MacNeill, Jenny Bates, Sara Jennings, Laurel Winslow, Laura Michaels, Laura Hastings, and Josie Litton. She used different pennames to re-invent herself. She is happily at work on a new novel, because she finds that writing each romance is and adventure filled with fascinating people who never fail to surprise her. When she isn't writing, she keeps busy homeschooling her two children and thinking of new stories. She lives in New England, USA, with her husband, children and menagerie... mostly.
