Untamed
Chapter One
Spring in the Reign of King Henry I Northern England
The sound of a war horn sliced through the day, announcing the coming of Blackthorne Keep's new lord. As though summoned, a dark shape condensed out of the mist ... a knight in full armor riding a huge stallion. Horse and man seemed one, indivisible, fierce with the male power singing in their blood like a storm.
"They say he is a devil, m'lady the widow Eadith muttered.
"They say that of all Norman knights," Meg said to her handmaiden with desperate calm, " yet among them surely there must be men of Kind and generous hearts."
Eadith made a sound that could have been a throttled laugh.
"Nay, mistress." Tis fitting that your bridegroom wears chain mail and rides a savage destrier. There is whispering of war."
"There will be no war," Meg said firmly. "That is why I will wed--to end the bloodletting.
"Do not mislead yourself . War is more likely to be waged than a wedding," Eadith announced with savage satisfaction. Death to the Norman invaders!"
"Silence," Meg said softly. "I will hear no talk of wa ... read full excerpt from Untamed ebook
