Secrets

Seventeen year old Domino deCourtney had accepted that she would never marry. In a world that valued small women Domino was an oddity. Tall, elegant and red haired, she drew stares like bees to honey in the Christian city of Acre in the Holy Land. A chance remark in the market between Domino and her older sister, Giselle, propels Domino into a disastrous marriage with Sir Charles Paget, an aging English knight known for his odd penchant of sexual partners, namely his secretary, Raul Langston.

Resigned to her fate and pregnant with her first child she is unprepared when she meets Charles' newly arrived Templar nephews, Sir Etienne desBarres and his brother Philip desBarres. The connection between Domino and Etienne was instantaneous, resulting in Sir Charles’ jealous attempt to remove his nephew, and therefore his wife, from temptation.

From the caravans of the Holy Land to the slave markets of Persia, Etienne struggles to return to Domino, pulled by an invisible string as old as time itself. Whirling around them in ever increasing circles are the politics and threats of war from two powerful cultures. While they watch helplessly as their world rapidly dissolves, Etienne and Domino strive to overcome adversities and conventions to fulfill their destinies. Though separated by the fall of Acre in 1291, they will reunite in England with the continuation of their story in Intrigues.