Honor's Splendour

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Julie Garwood

The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1) By edict of the king, the mighty Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride. His choice was Jamie, youngest daughter of Baron Jamison...a feisty, violet-eyed beauty. Alec ached to touch her, to tame her, to possess her...forever. But Jamie vowed never to surrender to this highland barbarian. He was everything her heart warned against-an arrogant scoundrel whose rough good looks spoke of savage pleasures. And thought Kincaid's scorching kisses fired her blood, she brazenly resisted him...until one rapturous moment quelled their clash of wills, and something far more dangerous than desire threatened to conquer her senses... Related Books - 2 - 1 (From the Author's web-site.) Lairds' Fiancées: The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1) The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)

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Anne Carsley

She endured the bruising passions of a man she tried to hate. . . . She defied the evil lust of another who schemed to corrupt and control England. . . . Daughter of a nobleman exiled by Edward IV, Katherine Hartley's flashing beauty and hot-blooded pride took her from dire poverty to the dangerous glamour of Westminster Court. Threatened by royal intrigue, forced into satanic sacrificial ceremonies, Katherine finally discovered why her father had been labeled a traitor. And, at last, when the one man who might claim her soul as totally as he had captured her flesh was freed of his haunted past, she would know the glorious ecstasy of passion's wild fulfillment.

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Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian

A central work in medieval culture and modern scholarship, the Romance of the rose was among the most consistently illustrated of medieval secular texts. Consequently, interpretation of the visual evidence has played a significant part in elucidating the poem and its derivatives. This volume reproduces in color, with commentary and full contextual discussion, all the miniatures from five unpublished illuminated manuscripts of Le Roman de la rose in the National Library of Wales.

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Marsha Canham

Ciaran Tamberlane was once an honored warrior—until the day he lost his faith in both church and crown, and was branded a traitor by his fellow countrymen. Excommunicated by the church and surrounded by dark rumors, he lives in self-imposed exile, responsible only for the peasants who live on his land. Amaranth de Langois was once an obedient wife—until she escaped her husband's brutality and took refuge in a small village. But his men tracked her down. And it was only through Lord Tamberlane's timely intervention that Arnie was spared. Now it's his obligation to return her to her husband, a man who would see her dead. But as long as Arnie resides within his castle, Ciaran will protect her from harm. He has nothing to lose should he defy his duty—and everything to gain should he risk his heart for her love.