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With over five-million copies of her books in publications, Ny Times-Bestselling author Virginia Henley has enchanted visitors worldwide.  Now she sweeps us back once again to an extremely intimate, tumultuous amount of time in Scottish history.  .  .  .  When Lynx de Warenne, E Plantagenet's most valued soldier, penetrated Dumfries fortress, he got ownership of Jane Leslie's house--and quickly needed anything more in the headstrong lass.  Desperate for an heir, he suggested a handfasting: a Scottish custom where a guy can legitimately have a girl into his bed, then, following a year and each day, the pair can possibly wed or part.  Any child of this marriage is Considered legitimate.  Jane had no option but to submit to the enemyis understanding touch.  .  .  . Courageous about the battleground, Lynx was scared to love.  But Linda gradually took into his heart.  And whilst the fires of battle raged around them, amid dangerous enemies and amazing intrigues, who'd have believed that two such improbable companions would fall in love--or that their speechless enthusiasm for every other would overcome.  .  .Virginia Henley may be the writer of fourteen romantic books, like the Ny Times bestsellers Lured and Desired.  Her function hasbeen translated into five languages.  A recipient of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, she lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Ontario, Canada.