When Elinore of Evenbough was given as wife, by royal command, to Malcolm le Farouche he felt his blood race For the warrior-trained beauty who would have to share his bed was not to be trusted with his life or his heart Sir Malcolm has a dark reputation as the greatest knight in the land How would Elinore convince him that she was not the same as her treacherous father? When would he believe that she adored him with all her soul?