Seonaid Dunbar was trained as a Scottish warrior, but fleeing to an abbey would be preferable to whacking Blake Sherwell with her swordwhich shell happily do before wedding the man. No, shell not walk weakly to the slaughter, dutifully pledge troth to anyone the English court calls "Angel. " Fair hair and eyes as blue as the heavens hardly prove a mans worth. And there are many ways to elude a devilish suitor, even one that King Henry orders her to wed. No, the next Countess of Sherwell is not sitting in her castle as Blake thought: embroidering, peacefully waiting for him to arrive. She is fleeing to a new stronghold and readying her defenses. This battle will require all weaponsif he ever catches her. And the chase is about to begin.