The Tarnished Lady

“Sandra Hill writes stories that tickle the funnybone and touch the heart. Her books are always fresh, romantic, inventive, and hilarious.”
—New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs

“Sandra Hill always delivers smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud action.”
—New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan,
                                                                                                  
An early classic from USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill, The Tarnished Lady features the same outrageous humor and sizzling passion that fires up the pages of her delectable Viking romances. This is historical romance at its finest, funniest, and sexiest, as a disgraced Medieval beauty strikes a bargain with a vengeful knight, entering into a chaste marriage of convenience that the lusty warrior is determined to make a more “hands-on” affair.

Disgraced!

Banished from polite society for bearinga child out of wedlock, Lady Eadyth ofHawks' Lair spends her days hidden undera voluminous veil, tending her bees.But when her son's detested father threatensto reveal the boy's true paternity and seizeher beloved lands, Lady Eadyth seeks ahusband willing to claim the child as his own.

Eirik of Ravenshire is England's most virilebachelor, notorious for loving—and leaving—the most beautiful damsels in the land.Now a mysterious lady is offering him a vowof chaste matrimony in exchange forrevenge against his most hated enemy, andEirik simply cannot refuse. But the lustyknight's plans go awry when he finds himselfunable to resist Eadyth's myriad charms . . .and he succumbs to the sweet sting of thetarnished lady's love.