Master of Surrender by Karin Tabke   

Coming 24 June 2008 from Pocket!

Talented and versatile erotica author Karin Tabke brings her wonderfully sexy voice to the historical romance genre with this compelling story—the first novel in the Black Sword series—set in medieval England.

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The Blood Sword Legacy begins…

Bound by a brotherhood forged in the hell of a Saracen prison, eight Blood Swords – mercenary knights for William the Conqueror – set out to claim their legacies the only way they can: by right of arms, by right of victory, by right of conquest.

Isabel, heiress of Aelthorp, wants peace and tranquility for her people, but William, bastard Duke of Normandy, has overthrown Harold the Usurper. Her father and brother are slain at Hastings, and she’s left alone to protect Aelthorp. Known as la lame noir, the Black Sword, legendary killer at Hastings and half cousin to William, Reegan du Luc, wants one thing – legitimacy. The only sure way to do that is to secure land and a wife to bear him sons. But the woman he chooses, Isabel, is already betrothed – and the daughter of a man he slew on the battlefield.