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The Border Lord and the Lady continues the sweeping romance of the Border Chronicles. When jealous stepmothers endanger her, child Lady Cicely Bowen of the Earl of Leighton is sent away and forms a close friendship with Lady Joan Beaufort, cousin to King James I of Scotland. As Joan marries the king, Cicely travels north with the royal entourage. At the Scottish court, the attentive Andrew Gordon, laird of Fairlee, and the rugged border lord Ian Douglas, laird of Glengorm, both fall for her. When Douglas kidnaps Cicely just before Andrew proposes, a political scandal erupts, forcing the queen to demand her sister’s release and threatening a border war.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Bertrice Small
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