Return to the post-Conquest world of the powerful D'Auvrecher family with subterfuge, duplicity, danger... and the lure of abiding love Sir Evart D'Auvrecher, home from Crusade, travels through the New Forest to take up a newly assigned duty. His journey is interrupted-the hard way-when outlaws attack. Captured, tortured and abandoned to a slow death, Evart is rescued by Annice of Aiglantier, an apprentice healer with an unusual talent. Her birth is a mystery, her early years cloaked in shadows, yet Evart is captivated by her exotic beauty. Love blossoms between them like the wild roses of her home, Aiglantier Keep. Soon they learn the attack against Evart was but one strand of a complex web of intrigue-a net in which they are now entangled. The deadly scheme threatens the very throne of England. While they seek to solve the mystery of Annice's past, they must also work to unravel the conspiracy before England is embroiled in civil war.