By Sara Mackenzie

He's Lord Reynald de Mortimer, a strong warrior of the 13th century who defended his fortress opposed to his fiercest enemies. Now Reynald has woke up from a seven-hundred-year sleep to discover that his loved domestic has been become a latest lodge. Worse, it really is host to a medieval pageant! sooner than Reynald can start to examine his destiny, a gorgeous attractiveness involves his rescue . . . Amy Fairweather isn't really your common damsel. neither is she in misery. As a former con artist, it will take greater than a wide ranging big in armor to persuade her that he is the Lord Reynald . . . whether he does set Amy's nights ablaze with ardour and magic. yet then unusual, inexplicable issues begin to take place on the resort, and he or she has no selection yet to think that the Ghost has emerged from the shadows of time. And now he needs to search redemption by means of dealing with his maximum danger . . . with the unquestioning love of 1 remarkable girl by way of his facet.

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My father conquered by force and fear, and still the Welsh deied him. ” Melancholy fell over him. Despite the high standards he had striven for, he had tried and failed. And he had been so close . . ” “It is a place where the dead go to await their fate. I have slept there for seven hundred years, awaiting my second chance. To live again, to make right my wrong. ” Amy nodded slowly, as if she believed him, but there was a glitter in her green eyes that said otherwise. She set her empty glass down.

Reynald strode forward and, reaching for the doors, threw them open. The thudding of drums rolled over him, momentarily numbing his senses. It was like walking into the full force of a gale. He gritted his teeth against the cacophony and 26 Passions of the Ghost looked around. His magniicent hall was full of strangers in strange garments. His elaborately carved lord’s chair was gone from the dais, as were the trestle tables and benches used by his people, and his ine tapestries from the walls. There were no serious men in serious conversation over roast beef and ale.

43 Sara Mackenzie * * * Curiously Amy watched as the various components that made up his costume came off. He heaved the coat from him—it must have been at least eighty pounds—and it landed on the loor with a thud that shook the room. As she’d thought, he was heavily padded—beneath the armor he wore a long garment that afforded comfort and protection. When he stripped this off, he was still a big man. A very big man. But he was no longer a giant. Now he was down to a pair of tight, fawncolored trousers that hugged his legs, and boots that came to his ankles, and a whitish tunic or shirt that came to midthigh, with long sleeves and no buttons—it simply laced at his throat.

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