BOOK #14

Start with The Dukes Sword. On a rainy morning, patrolling from
Wyndmere Hall to the Village, a shadow shifts by the graveyard.
Ready to defend, or chase down a vagrant, Flaherty is shocked to
discover an exhausted widow shielding her young daughter from
the rain. In that moment his life irrevocably changes. Exhaustion
has Temperance pausing to rest near the church. The deep rumble
and harsh tone of the huge man garbed in black has her springing to her feet,
poised to run. His order to stop in the name of the duke, has her glancing over
her shoulder into eyes the color of a springtime sky. The irresistible promise of
tea and cake for her daughter tempts her to tentatively trust him.