Lord Royce’s Knights series by Flora Speer (#1-#6)
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Overview: Flora Speer is the traditionally published author of twenty full-length novels and two novellas. She writes historical, futuristic and time-travel romances. Born in southern New Jersey, she now lives in Connecticut. Among her favorite activities are doing research for the next book, which is always fun, gardening (especially herbs and flowers used in medieval gardens) and amateur astronomy. She firmly believes in space travel and wishes the U.S. would restart its manned space program, which provided some great ideas for her futuristic romances.
Flora is currently writing a series of medieval romances, soon to be published on Smashwords, in which a group of young men who have no prospects in life at all, still manage to achieve remarkable results by valor and intelligence. Since these are romances, never fear that they will also find their true loves, ladies who are every bit as dauntless and determined as the men.
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
1. So Great A Love
England, winter, A.D.1121. After fleeing Sutton Castle, where her ruthless father, Lord Phelan, drunken brother, Eustace, and an elderly suitor are all determined to see her married off for a second time, Lady Margaret and her best friend, Catherine of Wortham, travel through a blizzard to reach isolated Bowen Manor, owned by Catherine’s brother, Arden, who has long been absent from England. There they hope to be safe. They don’t know that Arden has returned to England and is heading for Bowen, where he plans to stay alone until he can decide how to face his father, Royce the baron of Wortham.
Arden has terrible sins to confess and the last thing he wants is two women to chatter at him and destroy what little peace he can find. But when Catherine learns that Tristan, the man she has always loved, has married and will soon be coming to Bowen to join Arden, she falls ill. Margaret’s quiet kindness and good sense work wonders as she tries to reconcile the siblings. Arden finds himself aching to make love to her. But he has no right to love any woman, not after what he has done.
Margaret’s family heads for Wortham Castle to demand that Lord Royce help their search. After warning Royce about their traitorous political designs and declaring he wants nothing more to do with Lord Phelan, the elderly suitor departs. Royce takes his priest and Margaret’s family and heads for Bowen Manor. There Tristan and his charming wife, Isabel, have also arrived.
Phelan, seeing an advantage to himself, demands that Arden and Margaret must marry immediately after spending so much time alone together. Arden declares that he cannot marry, not under any circumstances. But Phelan’s brutality toward his daughter soon forces Arden to agree, for marriage is the only way he can protect her.
2. Cast Love Aside
The plan is simple: Magnus is to abduct the French spy, Count Erland, and transport him to England to be traded for a English spy who’s being held by the French. But the captive Englishman is Magnus’ estranged twin brother, Desmond. And no sooner have Magnus and his companions, Braedon and William, arrived at Manoir St Inge than Magnus is confronted by Erland’s niece, Lilianne. The lady is willing to help, for a price – Magnus must extract from Erland information as to where her little brother, Gilbert, has been hidden. Magnus, fascinated by her, reluctantly agrees. A dangerous escape from France that includes Lilianne and her companion, Alice, leads to unexpected romance for both ladies. Lilianne, a tall, sturdy girl, feels dainty and feminine with the oversized Magnus, while shy Alice discovers quiet pleasures with William.
In England, Lilianne finally learns from Erland that Gilbert, secretly locked in a tower room at the manor without food or water, is surely dead by now. Heartbroken, she decides she must return to France to see the boy properly buried. Magnus won’t allow her to go into danger alone. He has fallen deeply into love with the indomitable girl, but has nothing to offer her except his sword and his life.
3. True Love
Spring, AD 1121.
Catherine cannot understand why her father, Lord Royce, has arranged a village fair and tournament for the two weeks around Whitsunday in May. Odder still is the guest list, for it includes people whom Catherine knows are not friends: Lord Phelan and his drunken son, Eustace, who once put a scar on Catherine’s face; Lady Edith, who has rather obvious designs on the widowed Royce; and Lord Achard, who declares his love for Catherine, though she barely knows him. She’s sure his sudden “love” is because of her large dowry. Royce insists she must allow Achard to court her, but he promises that she won’t have to marry him. She just knows this is another of her father’s plots.
4. Where Love Has Gone
A sixteen-year-old girl is missing on the island of Jersey. Aglise is the goddaughter of Lord Royce. After receiving a desperate letter from Aglise’s older sister, Elaine, begging for his help, Royce sends two agents to Jersey to discover what has happened.
Desmond, who loves the excitement of spying, is in charge of the mission. He doesn’t much like his assigned companion, Cadwallon. The two are obviously unwelcome at Warden’s Manor, where Lord Bertrand and his icy wife, Lady Benedicta, manage the island in the name of King Henry I. Bertrand claims the island has been thoroughly searched and no sign of Aglise has been found. Lady Benedicta insists the girl has run off with a lover.
Only Elaine seems genuinely worried about her sister. A quiet young woman, she secretly harbors doubts about the beautiful Aglise’s recent activities. For his part, Desmond is unwillingly drawn to Elaine by her intelligence and her dauntless determination to find her sister.
5. Love Everlasting
Royce, the baron of Wortham cherishes the memory of this first wife, to whom he was famously faithful. But King Henry I wants him to wed Julianna in order to keep her vast properties out of the hands of King Louis VI of France. Henry is uncertain of Julianna’s loyalty and he trusts Royce, his long-time spymaster, to keep the lady out of trouble.
Julianna, twice forced to marry men who cared nothing for her, is even less eager to wed than Royce. When the two meet they agree they must obey the king, so they will treat each other honestly and, once the marriage is consummated, they will continue a polite but distant relationship.
However, Royce cannot resist a mystery and Julianna is plainly a lady with secrets. On their wedding night Royce discovers one of those secrets: Julianna was sorely neglected by her previous husbands. Though not technically a virgin, she remains ignorant of the pleasure that men and women may find together. She is first astonished, then beguiled by Royce’s tender treatment of her But there is so much she cannot tell him….
Thus begins a contest of secrets and opposing agendas between a husband and wife who, despite their pledge of honesty, dare not tell each other the truth.
6. Love Above All
Fionna’s ruthless brothers decide she must die for overhearing their treasonous plotting against the king of the Scots. They toss her into a nearby river, but she manages to make it to the riverbank. There she is found by Quentin of Alney who is returning from a diplomatic mission to King Alexander. Upon learning Quentin’s name, Fionna is terrified because he is the man her brothers intend to kill to create an incident that will lead to war between England and Scotland. Gillemore and Murdoch are furious that Alexander is allowing Normans to settle on Scottish land, and he’s changing age-old customs.
Fionna has never known kindness, but Quentin and his companions soon win her over. They agree to help her remove her younger sister, Janet, from an abbey where she’s being held until the brutal man she’s supposed to marry returns from transporting an English spy to French captivity.
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