Sworn to protect her.But she's threatening his guarded heart...Retrieving Lady Allis from a convent is no easy task-as mercenary knight Sir Leon soon discovers... Brave and beautiful, Allis awakens emotions he'd thought long buried after losing his family. But on their return to her castle the social gulf between them widens, when Allis's father demands she marry a nobleman. Leon has always believed love is an illusion...but will he be able to watch his defiant lady marry another?