A remarkable novel filled with the atmosphere of the Middle Ages.
Once, when she was still a little girl, Phoebe Layton believed that Gabriel Banner was a true “knight without fear or reproach”—as if he had stepped right out of her favorite medieval novels. And one day, this childish admiration brought tragedy for her entire family and catastrophe for Gabriel himself.
Now, years later, Phoebe—desperately needing help—was forced to turn to the man she still considered a noble paladin and selfless defender of beautiful ladies.
But years of wandering and hardship changed Gabriel greatly—young idealist became a cynical ladies’ man. Behind his help, a treacherous plan hides: to seduce and then abandon the naïve girl…