Winter's Flame

Book 4, Seasons of FortitudeThe Lady BlacksmithWhen Lady Winter's blacksmith mentor starts to lose his sight, she stays at Ravenscar to help him and to secure his secret. But things get complicated when a visiting border lord demands that the blacksmith travel with him to his castle to finish a promised sword that was part of a deal. To protect the man who taught her to forge steel, Winter pretends to be his daughter and goes on the trip to make the sword for him in secret.The Border LordBorder Lord Martin de Grey has commissioned the best blacksmith in all England to forge him a sword from the coveted Damascus steel. With this sword he will take down his Scottish enemy and save his brother. But when the completion of the job takes too long, he travels to Ravenscar to discover the sword has not been forged. The blacksmith and his daughter are brought back to his castle where he can keep an eye on them. Little does he know the fetching girl is not who she pretends to be.A passion between Winter and Martin heats up hotter than the fires of the forge. But when truths are discovered, will lies and deception extinguish that flame forever?