What if you’d been kidnapped–and your family refused to pay the ransom? The Hundred Years’ War was financed by both sides ransoming their noblemen hostages. When fierce fighting knight Gavin of Ashgrove is captured in battle, his father refuses to pay his son’s ransom. Gavin is imprisoned for two years but escapes back to England. Once he arrives, he finds he’s been proclaimed a bastard and disinherited.
He turns to Lord Aldred, the famed warrior he fostered with as a boy–and falls in love with Elizabeth, the old warrior’s much younger wife, even as a dying Aldred plots Elizabeth’s future with King Edward. $0.99 on Kindle.