Lady Angelet has spent her life obeying everyone else, a dutiful daughter, wife, mother, and widow whose reward is a one-way journey to a nunnery arranged by her shrewd father-in-law.
The man hired to escort her is Sir Rafe, the low-born and undefeated Knight of the Raven, who has fought for everything he possesses and is prepared to fight for her as well.
For the length of the road, he offers Angelet nights in which she need not be good at all.
When a deadly pursuer threatens them, Rafe defends her life even though the cost may be the exposure of his darker side.
Angelet has a secret of her own, and once she has tasted the life she has long dreamed of, she is finished with being anyone’s pawn.
