Lord of Vengeance

For years, Gunnar Rutledge has schemed against the man who came close to ruining him. Now he has found the perfect way to strike: through the enemy's daughter, Raina d'Bussy, a proud woman who refuses to be any man's slave.

Gunnar intends to break Raina's spirit and make her pay for her father's wrongs. Her goodness and strength work against him, and the man bent on revenge finds her harder to resist than to conquer.

The setting is medieval England, a rough and turbulent land, and the romance between the two matches it. Both carry the weight of sins from the past, and each has to decide what to do with that burden. Neither has an easy road toward trusting the other.

The book is a historical romance built on an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, with a hero driven by a long grudge and a heroine who will not bend. The question it turns on is whether a love neither of them planned can survive a vengeance Gunnar has nursed for so long, and what he will choose when the moment to act arrives.