Alora DeSanto's focus is on her children and her new job at the royal chateau. She never expected Prince Stefano to become a huge part of her world, nor did she expect the danger that is threatening both of their families.
A young novice in Toulouse leaves the abbey to care for her grandmother in Lavelanet. But when she arrives, she finds the village gripped by the terror of the Inquisition. While Andreva struggles to hold to her family, her faith, and the man she loves, all around her, she witnesses Good Men (the Cathars at Montsegur) fighting for life itself.
Matt's hands balled in frustration. . . . He couldn't even acknowledge that he knew the dark-haired beauty down the street — much less that he was married to her. .
Phil Carroll, banished from his old life, wanders across the country in his Winnebago looking for prize money, and any competition will do. When he learns about an $8,000 prize for a weight-loss competition in the mostly Mormon small towns of Taylor and Snowflake, Arizona, he drives across the country binge-eating zingers and pizza to get ready to lose as much weight as possible.
This hustle could be it. He could finally come up with enough money to send himself to Japan to study his first love, Jiu-Jitsu, and lift his banishment from the sport. But, when he parks his Winnebago on the driveway of an old friend, his whole world is threatened by a narcissistic trainer, the best weight loss hustler in the country, and the twelfth place crossfitting ex-husband of his beautiful personal trainer.
