Wow, pretty deep right? Not. Sigh, where do I begin? Our dashing hero is David D'Aubere, Earl of Lynchburg, a landless Earl (is there such a thing?) and great warrior who has sworn fealty to Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. Margaret is thrilled when David lops off the head of her sworn enemy, and rewards him with a great castle and marriage to an heiress, although the joke is on him when he finds his wife by proxy with the mental capacity of a child. He needs an heir to keep his new lands and just like magic a beauteous servant by the name of Riley crosses his path and he decides to impregnate her and pass the baby off as that of his wife. Are you rolling your eyes yet? Never fear there's more......
See it's like this - our beauteous servant is no servant at all, she's the daughter of the Yorkist Earl of Ewesbury and she and her older cousin crossed the English Channel all by themselves and managed to infiltrate the Lancastrian household as servants. No, I am not kidding - no men at arms or attendants to assist these medieval Misses, no indeedy. Well, you know the H&H are going to fall madly in love, but with all the secrets between them the path to true love has a bump or two, including the newly crowned Edward IV attempting to seduce our heroine in his "love garden" (his words) and culminating in a grand tourney overseen by our heroine dressed only in her shift....
No, I am not kidding, although at least by the tourney she had finally found herself a headdress and covered all those runaway curls. I could go on, but I'm fairly certain you get the idea. If you're looking for a good story with some decent writing I suggest you look elsewhere. If you're looking for a wall-paper romance with no purpose other than constant sex this might do but honestly it was pretty dreadful as well. I'd love to share some but I doubt it would get by the censors. Could this get any worse? Well yes it can, because there's a sequel set during the time of Richard III and the missing princes. Stay tuned.......
