THE ABBEY WAS HER HAVEN... The village of Audham lay on England's borderland-- a wild, savage backwater where Welsh raiders roamed, heedless of royallaw. But to widowed Isobel Bayeux, the abbey at Audham was a refuge from acruel world. She felt safe within its cloistered halls, where no man couldcontrol her life or her lands...UNTIL A MYSTERIOUS KNIGHT INVADED THE SANCTUARY OF HER HEART. Then themagnificent Sir Hugh appeared, claiming Audham as a reward from the king. Hepromised no disruption to the abbey, only peace and protection. Yet even hewas powerless to control the unrest that simmered beyond the gates -- or thepassion that would plunge Isobel into a dark web of treachery and peril. Washe the loyal and tender lover he seemed to be? Or would isobel's world berocked by betrayal ... and the perilous temptations of her own yearningheart?