The glitter of the English royal court surrounded beautiful Elizabeth Stafford, but she was blind to its magnificence. All she could see was the face of the renegade Irish lord, Kieran O'Neill, in whose veins ran the blood of chieftains. Betrothed to a powerful nobleman, desired by King James himself, Elizabeth would become a pawn in a game of power and conquest. But the man she longed for was O'Neill, secret conspiritor against the Crown, who promised her no castle, no honor, only the danger of betrayal and shame . . . and the passionate embrace able to join two rebellious hearts forever into one. Jennifer Roberson has published 25 novels since 1984. Her primary genre is fantasy, but she has also written historicals, historical romance, romantic suspense, and a western. In 2011, she moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she breeds and shows Cardigan Welsh Corgis, lives with a token Labrador, and creates mosaic artwork, specializing in pawprint designs.