Templar Prize

'"We should not," Edwina protested, all too briefly, before his lips covered hers. She thought she would swoon from the sheer bliss as Stephen's tongue unexpectedly eased its way into her mouth. She clung onto him like a drowning woman as the pleasure overwhelmed her, making a soft entreating sound as he pulled her even closer, crushing her breasts against his muscular chest.' At last free of a disastrous forced marriage, Edwina de Moreville accompanies Richard the Lionheart on a quest to the Holy Land. Recently reunited with her first and only love, Stephen the Comte de Chalais, their passion for each other is as strong as ever. But the path before them is shrouded in danger and betrayal. A terrible storm at sea awaits, as does the cruel Emperor of Cyprus, Isaac Comenius. And Stephen has enemies of his own, including the Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem - a tyrant who also wants Edwina. At the besieged city of Acre, their desperate situation becomes even more perilous. Renegade Knights Templar and a Saracen nobleman all seem determined to part the couple forever. And even Saladin has a part to play in their destiny.Ashford, Deanna is the author of 'Templar Prize ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780352341372 and ISBN 0352341378.