She was a young French woman living a quiet hell until her husband's brutality finally forced her to strike back --- and flee before her crime was discovered ... Assuming a new identity, she called herself Brittany and took work in a London tavern, hoping to go unnoticed. But her rare beauty did not escape the attention of the king's men who ventured into the taproom. Only the intervention of the bold and handsome Tristan Savidge saved Brittany from becoming the prize in a wager with the king. Yet Tristan's daring move earned him and the mysterious Brittany a potent enemy in the court and set them on a perilous path of love, vengeance and betrayal ...