The Virtuous Knight

One Thought Consumed Her: Escape! Lucy Kendal would do anything to leave the convent she'd called home since girlhood. But never had she dreamed the world contained such danger—and such desire—as she'd experienced firsthand. Though Sir Alexander Breton had rescued her countless times, he also stirred in her a sense of wildness—something he was honor bound never to fulfill! One Emotion Compelled Him: Grief! Widowed knight Alexander Breton had gone crusading to retreat from sorrow. Indeed, he was to take monastic vows after fulfilling a sacred quest for a dying friend. But fate decreed he would instead find Lucy Kendal, the brave, beauteous innocent, who needed protection and needed him! Definitely one of my favorite historical novels so far. Maybe it was because of how long it took to get hot and steamy and when it finally happened, the scenes were well written, believable and incredibly hot ;) Lucy's total innocence was believable, right up to believing that lying next to a man gave her a chance of having his child. The danger seemed real too, and I wondered when they would get their happy ending. I hope to read more of this genre in the future, but I wonder if any Harlequin novel could be as good as this one!