How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden

Forced into marriage with a foul-mouthed, murderous widow. “By God, drag her down here! Naked if you must! Bread and water from now to eternity if you can’t!” Sir Marcus Blackwell slammed his fist on the well-worn table and the sound echoed back from every direction. Hook: A feisty widow and a Templar knight? What could possibly go wrong? But when all is on the line, will he stand by her through the inquisition or will they both hang for her secrets? Despite his insatiable attraction to the black-haired beauty, he allows her time to warm to him while observing her strange, forward-thinking ways. But the reward comes with a warning regarding the estate’s mistress. After returning from the Holy wars, he accepts endowment of a small parcel of land in return for saving King Edward’s life. Abandon her beloved people to be ruled by her new husband, an ignorant Templar knight? Never!Ī murderous witch for a wife? The Beast of Thornhill finds himself in the middle of either a cruel jest or an evil conspiracy. The king couldn’t possibly have sanctioned this farce of a marriage, could he? After all, she alone transformed a few mud huts and starving serfs into a flourishing town, never once hesitating to pay generous taxes to his royal kingdom. A knife clatters to the floor and a feisty young widow is bound, blindfolded, and led to the marriage alter. In the hours just before dawn, blasphemous curses echo throughout the stone manor.

This week on Thursday Threads we feature Stella Marie Alden‘s wonderful historical romance, How to Train Your Knight:

How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden