When Lady Katherine Harvard becomes the target of a dastardly scheme, she serves out her own recipe of justice in this fourth installment of the Night Wind Saga.
The only thing that kept Police Lieutenant Rodney Rushton from a date with the Night Wind's maiming and crippling fists was Bingham Harvard's determination to keep a charge of murder from ruining his prospects of marriage to Lady Kate. But now newlyweds Bing and Kate have returned from Europe determined to clear the Night Wind's name. But there still remains a price on Bingham's head -- dead or alive!
The Black Death has spared Clarendon Abbey, where Audra Travers is a novice. It is the only life she knows. Everything changes when men come from Bredonmere Manor, telling her that, in the wake of the plague’s decimation of her family, she is the sole living heir to her father’s lands. She is no longer Sister Audra, but the Countess of Bredonmere. On her way home, she is halted by a masked man who calls himself Lynx and warns her that nothing will be as she expects when she reaches the manor. Furious at his bold ways that elicit sensations she never has felt before, she vows to keep him from intruding. Even so, Lynx in all his roles at Bredonmere becomes her greatest ally . . . and her greatest temptation. But can learning the truth of the man behind the mask and his true reason to come to her home destroy all she has built—as well as her heart?
This book holds a collection of Indian myths, tales of Spanish viceroys, and accounts of the Mexican revolutionaries. Aztec gods vent their wrath on the world, the Indian prince guards his sleeping princess forever, the Spanish viceroys dispenses their separate brands of justice, the Maximilian's lancers engage in high adventure. Here is the Mexico of fantasy-the old tales, legends and folkways that live on, undisturbed by modern contrivances of man. They are told with the flavor of the village ranconteur and the authority of a scholar.