The Black Sheep's Saving Grace (A Certain State Of Marriage Book 2)
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The Black Sheep's Saving Grace (A Certain State Of Marriage Book 2)
The Black Sheep’s Saving Grace
The storm accompanied him back to his ancestral home. A neglected and tumbled mansion of extreme proportions, swept by frigid drafts and haunted by weeping ceilings where tiles had long since given up their near vertical existence to fling themselves in dejected surrender to the cobbled courtyards below. Rory had no clear memory of the numerous rooms, but recalled the terrible chill that had given him a lasting distaste for Northern England, before his mother had lifted him from his bed at the age of four, and stolen him away to Southern France.
The greeting he received on arrival nearly thirty years later was unusual to say the least. A crazy young woman, wearing a torn gown, and brandishing a bloody knife, tearing towards him like a spectre of both faded and torrid colours; a drunken lord, bleeding profusely from his wound, and bellowing for vengeance; and an unconscious young man, dissipated beyond his years, who happened to be Rory’s only remaining paternal relation.
And his response in return? Why, to throw back his head and bellow with laughter before drawing his sword and standing tall, with tawny head thrown back on wide shoulders, daring these occupants, and daring the Fates to try their luck. Because he was the Black Sheep, and would take no opposition to this much valued, and well earned title.
But someone decided to save his soul, because she truly believed it was worth the effort of saving. After all, hadn’t he strode in with the storm wailing at his back, and by so doing saved her life? Grace admitted she’d not set herself an easy task, but Rory’s disturbing presence was by far preferable to the tedium of life before he’d returned, a wolf to the fold.
(All books in the 'A Certain State Of Marriage' series are independent of each other, and can be read in any order).