Secret Song by Catherine Coulter - 371 pages
Roland de Tournay is a landless knight whose dream is to buy his own
land and home. He knows what keep he wants to buy and is earning the
money to buy it. He accepts a job from Damon le Mark to rescue his
niece from the Earl of Clare.
Daria of Fortescue, niece of Damon le Mark was promised to wed. On
the journey to her betrothed her escorts are murdered, she is kidnapped
and taken to the Earl of Clare who wishes her for his wife. She has no
desire to marry at all. Several weeks after her capture a new priest is
installed at the castle and Daria immediately feels drawn to him. The
priest is Roland whose expertise is his ability to masquerade. He frees
Daria. Several days later he takes ill with a fever and she must now
nurse him back to health. During his fever she allows him to make love
to her, planning to never tell him. The Earl has been tracking them and
Daria takes Rolands horse and leads him away from where Roland is
staying. She is taken back to the castle. A couple of months later
Roland again rescues her and takes her to King Edward who is journeying
in the area.
Daria is pregnant and Roland marries her believing that the Earl of
Clare is the father and not believing her when she tells him that he is
the father. He cannot remember making love to her because of the fever
he had at the time. Both the Earl and her uncle are furious at the
marriage and set out to gain revenge. Daria's dowry is huge as her
father had been an Earl himself and left everything to her. Roland is
now able to buy his keep. They argue constantly because he believes her
a liar. He does however bring her mother to live with them. Daria's
mother is filled with her own secrets regarding what Daria's father was
really like and also who her real father really was. With the help of
Daria's mother and Roland friends many secrets are revealed before
Roland comes to believe Daria and they find happiness.
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