Surprised by love

the long version

Alaric's song - The blood feud between the Merclifs and the Cardels has been raging for years. To end it, King Henry orders handsome, self-reliant Alaric, Baron Merclif, to marry Helena, Cardel's daughter. But can Alaric risk bringing her into his serene home? What if she is like her greedy, evil father and brothers? Yet what other choice does Alaric have? Away from here - If Stephen Marot could have predicted what lay ahead on the road to Elbeuf, he would have taken a different way home, not the leisurely road along the Seine. Then he never would have heard the angry voices or seen the huddle of men ... and his mind wouldn't be in continual torment with the weight of his secret. Chained to your heart - Any hopes eighteen-year-old Katherine Elizabeth Brady once had are gone. Never in her wildest dreams could she have imagined herself locked up in Newgate, the most notorious of all prisons. Falsely accused of stealing, she shares a communal cell with twenty-five men, women, and children, with no hope of release.