Letia de Burgh is as beautiful as she is capable. Famed for her warrior skills, she can command Seton Castle's defenses as skillfully as any man can.

When Maud and Stephen's battles throw England into anarchy, she must protect her home and people. She sacrifices all when her husband devises a plan to save Seton Castle from ruin when he dies.

'Twas a simple plan with few steps to follow: Capture her enemy, seduce him, bear his child and save her people. Falling in love was not in the plan.

Raik of Raptor Castle must never know who had seduced him.