My Lady Wayward [Paperback]

Return to a glorious world of courtly love in this enchanting medieval romance from the bestselling author ofMy Lady Beloved—Linda Lael Miller writing as Lael St. James.

From the shelter of St. Swithin’s Abbey, Meg Redclift misses her sister Gabriella, and fears the bride-to-be has met with danger. But the world’s uncertainties visit the abbey when a handsome, wounded knight appears—and Meg finds herself overwhelmingly attracted as she restores the stranger to health. If only he could remember who he is...

Left with no idea of his attacker’s identity—or his own—Gresham Sedgewick fears his shadowed past may be dishonorable, and fights his powerful desire for lovely Meg. But when they are forced to flee the abbey, Gresham is plunged into an urgent quest with the woman who is his greatest temptation—and perhaps his salvation. Dodging deadly assaults, Gresham must trust his warrior instincts and the passion in his heart to find the truth about himself—and the freedom to give himself completely to his lady wayward.Chapter One

They found him lying facedown amidst the hardened, frosty runnels of St. Swithin's squash patch, half frozen and out of his senses, with a crimson cap of blood crusted at the back of his head.

Elizabeth Redclift, the younger of the two sisters, hastily crossed herself and murmured a prayer, while Meg, the more direct of the pair, dropped to her knees beside the unfortunate fellow, turned him gently onto his back, and sought a pulse at the base of his throat.

Even in those straightened circumstances, it gave Meg something of a start, the look of him. He was fair, with features so finely chiseled they might have been shaped by an Italian sculptor instead of an often -- in Meg's view, at least -- careless deity. Just looking at him, she felt a strange shift, deep inside, a singular tension, as though she'd just stepped onto the crumbling edge olc@