◆◆ Will haunting memories of the past doom a marriage before it starts? ◆◆

Coira MacDuff has had a hard life. Once a prisoner of the English and held captive in a hanging cage, she is hesitant to marry an Englishman. Still, she does so for an alliance for her clan. Never does she expect her new husband to bring her back to Liddel Castle, the place that still haunts her dreams.

A graveyard ghost leads investigators to a corpse hidden in an abbey's wall.

When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged sister resides as a nun. But with the local constable asking for his help, and Lady Vivienne accepting the case for them, he quickly finds himself not only working on a murder, but having to face his ghosts of the past involving his sister.

Lady Vivienne Harlowe has helped the sheriff on several cases. So when a ghost in the graveyard seems to be summoning her, she takes it as a sign that she and the sheriff must travel to Maltby le Marsh to assist with a new murder investigation. Zachariah is her good friend from childhood, and as both of them have lost their spouses, a growing attraction between them makes her wonder if they can keep their relationship professional as they've always agreed to do.

★From betrayal and deceit, a legend is put to rest ★

The Lord of the Crypts Rook the Ruthless is one of the bastard triplets of King Edward III, out for vengeance against the father who ordered the death of the three brothers at birth. This is one wound that time hasn't healed. Rook lives in secret in the catacombs of Lanercost Priory. As a child he hid away as Edward pillaged and burned Scotland during Burnt Candlemas.
Rook and his brothers have been raiding the king, working together and are known as the Demon Thief. Rook's heart is black and he will never change his ways, letting his hatred of his father rule his life.

Feared as a demon because of his two different colored eyes, as well as for his outlandish actions, Highlander Onyx MacKeefe is known as a madman. While celebrating his birthday one cold night, he meets a bonnie Englishwoman searching for her father’s killer. To his surprise, the Sasssenach accuses his mother and orders her soldiers to arrest her.

Lady Loveday de Lacy, known as Lovelle, comes to Scotland looking for not only her father’s murderer, but also her mother’s stolen Book of Hours. She is sure she found the guilty woman, but before she can collect her and leave, the woman’s rugged Highland son takes her captive in exchange for release of his mother.

When an assassination attempt on the king goes wrong during a joust and takes the life of an innocent man, Harlowe & Fitch must hunt down a devious killer before he strikes again.

A grand tournament is about to begin, and the excitement grows as King Edward III joins the festivities at Mablethorpe Castle. Meanwhile, Lady Vivienne Harlowe's past comes back to haunt her, and she will do anything to find answers to the questions that have plagued her for the past seven years regarding her parents' unsolved murders. Meeting the king is nerve-wracking, but he is the only one who might be able to shed light on her nightmarish quandary.