The Knight and the Rose

Lady Johanna FitzHenry faces a desperate chance to escape her violent marriage by convincing a court that she was secretly wed to a stranger before her current marriage. Gervase de Laval, a fleeing bounty hunter, agrees to pose as her long-lost love to save his own life, leading both into a perilous web of deception. Their ruse thrusts them into a dangerous intrigues that reach the powerful circles of the English court.