From the New York Times bestselling authorthe third passionate romance in the Border Chronicles seriesThe year is and the winds of war rage across England uprooting Alix Givet the daughter of Queen Margarets physician and the rest of Henry VIs court Alixs plight becomes bleaker still when out of duty to her queen and to her ill widowed father shes locked into a loveless marriage to a cruel Northumbrian But when her luck changes Alix has another chance to fleethis time to save herself Escaping north over the border into Scotland she throws herself at the mercy of a dark and brooding laird who might provide the everlasting love of her dreamsif she can warm his cold heart