A Courtship at Linlithgow

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A carefully orchestrated plot or a chance encounter? Their love burns through all doubt.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marion Baird's biggest problem is her mother's greed. Excited to explore King James's court Marion wishes to avoid being flaunted in front of future prospects like a prized cow. She would rather explore the lavish castle grounds and library at Linlithgow Palace. That is until she encounters a man straight out of legend she can neither ignore nor deny.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alexander Campbell Earl of Argyll has accepted an invitation to the King's summer tourney. While the exercise is welcome the society is wrought with drooling mothers and daughters anxious to display their lack of talent and grace. This event will prove no different. He encounters a bewitching lady in the gardens during the masked ball and what follows will be burned onto his soul for all time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Caught between scandal and prejudice Marion and Alexander must decide if their passion is real or the product of a carefully orchestrated plot.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes You'll Love:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Arranged marriage</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Throwing a grand ball</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Honorable knight; innocent maiden</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Broken past engagement</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Medieval pageantry</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Scheming mother</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Royal interference</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Double romance</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tourney and knights</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Scottish king and English queen</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Note:</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line so this is a scorching-hot read with open-door steam.</span></p>