Prince Amery Llewellen is the only son of King Adin of Pharr and heir to the throne. When his father is lost in battle with the barbaric tribes invading the northern Pharrisian border, Amery becomes regent in his father’s stead. The royal advisers pressure him to take the crown and assume the throne, but doing so will force him to take a wife as well. Amery is loathe to do that, because he’s deeply in love with one of his knights, Sir Tovin Raimus, from the southland.<br><br>Such a relationship is forbidden -- both because Tovin is another man and because he is a knight, much below the station of a prince. After King Adin forbid their union, Tovin and Amery masked their love with fights and arguments designed to make the servants believe they loathe each other. The whole castle dreads the news that the northern border has been breached, because when Tovin is assigned the position of castellan, that makes him head of castle security. His being stationed so near the regent has the servants believing the two will fight to the death.<br><br>That’s just a farce to keep their love a secret. But Pharr needs a crowned ruler, and Amery must decide whether to take his rightful place on the throne or forsake his kingdom for the love of one man.

The Regent's Knight

He had been tempted to take Amery up on his offer—just spend the day in his lover’s arms and let the others worry about the war that rumbled like a thundering cloud on their northern borders. Berik and Lohden would take care of the Cyrians, he knew it, and Giles’s men would have no trouble stifling the few who dared to come into the kingdom from the west. Couriers had been dispatched the previous day, racing for the southland with news that would bring Tovin’s own troops storming to the castle. Within three days at the most, his own men would fill these empty corridors, weapons at the ready. Nothing could bring down these stone walls, nothing.


Chapter 10