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Search - The Dark Knight (The Cavendish Chronicles) (Harlequin Historical, No 612)
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Book Description:
Gypsy horsemaster Sandor Matskella is appalled that he must take over for his uncle, King Edward's executioner, when his uncle takes ill and must execute a troublesome nun at Hawksnest Castle.
But Sandor soon discovers the "old" nun is actually the lovely Lady Gastonia Cavandish, a woman who decided to devote herself to God because she couldn't find a man worthy of her.
Edward and his ministers wish to rid the country of anything Papist. By killing Tonia, they can reduce the influence of the powerful Cavandish family. Tonia is hopeful that she can stave off her execution by appealing to Sandor's sense of compassion. What she doesn't count on are her feelings for him—finally a man she can admire, even if he plans to kill her.
As their love grows together, they devise a plan to outsmart the ministers. Filled with the turbulent details of religious intolerance in England, this carefully crafted romance includes the real Cavandish family and their history. In it, Ms. Phillips proves that love is the most powerful emotion when it resides in the hearts of strong men and women. -- Evelyn Feiner
But Sandor soon discovers the "old" nun is actually the lovely Lady Gastonia Cavandish, a woman who decided to devote herself to God because she couldn't find a man worthy of her.
Edward and his ministers wish to rid the country of anything Papist. By killing Tonia, they can reduce the influence of the powerful Cavandish family. Tonia is hopeful that she can stave off her execution by appealing to Sandor's sense of compassion. What she doesn't count on are her feelings for him—finally a man she can admire, even if he plans to kill her.
As their love grows together, they devise a plan to outsmart the ministers. Filled with the turbulent details of religious intolerance in England, this carefully crafted romance includes the real Cavandish family and their history. In it, Ms. Phillips proves that love is the most powerful emotion when it resides in the hearts of strong men and women. -- Evelyn Feiner
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Lady Gastonia Cavendish had only wanted to start her own nunnery far away from the secular world, but her devotion to the Catholic religion was a dangerous thing in Protestant-ruled England. Tried and convicted of heresy because of her religion, she was sentenced to death and banished to the crumbling castle of Hawksnest until her executioner arrived to carry out her death sentence.
Sandor Matskella is the unlucky man who has been chosen to be Gastonia's executioner. A Gypsy, his people are despised in England. He was an unwilling executioner; his young cousin was held in the Tower of London until the dastardly deed was done, and Sandor's uncle was too ill to perform the execution himself. Once he lays eyes upon the beautiful and charming Gastonia, however, Sandor isn't sure how he could possibly execute such a wonderful woman. Will he follow the King's orders, or his own heart?
"Come, Lord Death, and Grant Me Life In Your Arms:
Such invocations sprang to Lady Tonia's lips when she beheld Sandor Matskella, the sworn agent of her etrnal rest. Yet his raw masculine power instead roused her slumbering womanhood to the dawn of eternal joy!