They call him The Protector. But once upon a time, he was a knight who had failed in his greatest duty. It has been said that the Plantagenet royal family is full of vipers. No one knows that so well as Sir Fox de Merest, a knight of the highest order once given the ultimate assignment – to protect a royal bastard from the rage of Eleanor of Aquitaine. It was a task he failed miserably at - he fell in love with the woman he was supposed to protect. That failure resulted in her being committed to a nunnery. As the trainer known as “The Protector” at the most elite warrior training school in England, Fox has carved out a niche for himself training new recruits and distancing himself from the crushing failure of being unable to protect his love from a furious dowager queen. No one knows of his past, but ten years after his abject failure, the subject rears its ugly head again. Fox’s lady love was Gisele of Hampshire, royal offspring of Henry the Young King, and now her uncle, King John, is brokering a treaty that would see her plucked from the convent thrust into the limelight of a strategic marriage. Fox is now tasked with saving her from a marriage that would certainly cause her death and taking her to safety – again. At William Marshal's request, he must take a leave from Blackchurch to try and finish what he started those years ago. Can he complete his task, as ordered, without running away with her for good this time? Or will he deliver her to another convent in secret and simply walk away? Love, it seems, has no reason – and no boundaries, royal or holy. For Fox and Gisele, it may be the ultimate sacrifice. And the ultimate pain.

You haven’t heard an enemies to lovers story until you’ve listened to THE TEMPEST! Medieval mayhem and rollicking adventure has arrived for the Blackchurch Guild knights as a legendary pirate tries to storm their fortress… only to discover the legendary pirate is the most legendary buccaneer of all. And no one knows the buccaneer better than Payne Matheson! Payne is the Highlander of Blackchurch. Big, tough, and with a mouth he can’t control, he’s an excellent warrior with a supernatural gift for fighting. There is no better combatant at the Blackchurch Guild, but there’s a reason for that. Both of his parents were warriors. But he’s about to step onto the fighting platform of a much-larger world stage. Astria Julia is the daughter of Sancho I of Portugal, a royal princess by blood. She also happens to be a rebel, a lass with a mysterious past, and when she ends up at Blackchurch as a spoil of war, Payne gets much more than he bargains for with the fiery Portuguese princess. When an immovable force meets with a permanent object, it’s a battle of wills to see which one breaks first. Head to head combat between Payne and Astria soon turns to something else, something soft and warm that neither one of them recognize. When Astria finally reveals the truth behind her mysterious persona, Payne is in too deep to do anything about it. He is now part of her, she of him. And the results could be deadly. Join Payne and Astria on a truly epic adventure of pirates, legends, Scotsmen, and the curse of royal blood. At the Blackchurch Guild, the premier training ground of the best warriors in the world, anything can happen… and usually does!