Rose

Book excerpt: His early years in Ireland spent in shackles as a brothel slave, forced to perform carnal acts on demand, Amaurus the Moor now craves the delights of dark carnality. His unwillingness to inflict his unnatural desires on a woman he loves condemns him to the solitary life of a nomadic mercenary. No home. No wife. No children. Then he's seduced by a fair maiden whose illicit passions match his own. Disenchanted with her many spell-casting screw-ups, the Council of Immortals strips Treasa of her magical powers and erases her memory. However, the gods and goddesses are not without mercy. In their infinite wisdom, they give the shallow and vain witch a second chance, a quest to redeem herself. To accomplish the feat, the virgin Treasa must employ her vast store of womanly wiles on Amaurus the Moor... ...while she is disguised as a lad, hampered by amnesia, and without knowing her simple quest was a complicated ruse all along.