Isolde Cross · Coming Soon
Five Templar knights. Five forbidden loves. Twenty-three years from the fall of Acre to the last Grand Master's pyre. Each book follows a different couple, and every one of them ends happily. For readers who loved Priest and wanted it set in a medieval fortress with a sword, a siege, and a woman who doesn't care about his vow.
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Book One
I took three vows before God. For twelve years I kept every one. Then the walls of Acre began to fall, and a healer with steady hands and no patience for my prayers pulled me from the rubble and told me to stop dying. I should have walked away. That was six weeks ago.
Book Two
The Order sent me to watch a dead man's widow. Count her contacts. Map her network. Report. They did not send me to sit in her parlor while she read me the accounts that could destroy the most powerful institution in Christendom. They did not send me to fall in love.
Book Three
They sent me south to find heretics. I found a woman who healed her village with the same herbs the Church had burned her grandmother for knowing. She asked if I'd come to arrest her. I should have said yes. I stayed for the winter.
Book Four
I drew gargoyles in the margins of my prayer book because the Rule left no room for beauty anywhere else. On the night the king's men came for us, a woman I had never looked at took my hand and pulled me through a door I didn't know existed. She had a son. She had a plan. She did not have time for my faith in institutions.
Book Five
Twenty-three years. I kept a false name, a rented room, and a folded mantle in a chest I never opened. She built a practice, a garden, and a life that didn't need me. Then the last Grand Master stood before the fire and told the truth, and I had no more excuses left. She said: bring your life. I said: I don't have one. She said: then build one.
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