Warrior's Surrender

A shared secret from their past could destroy their future Northumbria, 1077. In the years following William the Conquerors harrying of the North, Lady Alfreya of Tyrswick returns to her family home after seven years in exile. But instead of returning victorious as her dead father had promised, she returns defeated by Baron Sebastian de la Croix, the Norman who rules her lands. To save her gravely ill brother's life, Alfreya offers herself hostage to her enemy. As Alfreya gets to know her new husband, she finds hes not the monster she feared, and their marriage of convenience soon becomes a bond of passion. But Sebastian is a man with a secretone that could destroy him. As a series of brutal murders haunt their nights, the man who betrayed Alfreyas father returns claiming to be her betrothed. He has learned Sebastians secret and will use it to further his own ambitionusing Sebastians own familywhich will destroy Sebastian and mark him a traitor, and plunge an unprepared England into war with the Scots