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DANGEROUS IMPERSONATION

"Do not speak, they had cautioned, as they took me from the bath and perfumed me. Not a word, they said, pulling the long over-gown of scarlet past my shoulders. Be silent, they warned, setting the seed pearl crown upon my head. The sweet essence, the rich velvet gown, the filmy veil, the man—they were the stuff of dreams. Why then was I so afraid?"

Her name was Alice, and she was very young and quite lovely. But she was only a serf. Which was why they took such trouble to disguise her when they thrust her into Lord Simon's bed…

A barren wife, a ruthless mother, an innocent girl, and a plot to ensure an heir for Tribourne, one of 14th-century England's great noble households, become the stormy center of this rich and robust novel.