title: Soldier
author: Lloyd, Catherine
description: Two amoral soldiers. Two young women in disguise. Their lives become linked and changed forever during one medieval Christmas.
       In Mercenary, Broderick, has been made a new father but his wife dies in childbirth. His infant son rejects the wet nurses Broderick has hired--the babe is dying. Tess, the daughter of the lord whose lands Broderick has usurped, is brought to him after a raid on the village. Believing her to be a mute serving girl, Broderick learns his prisoner recently gave birth to a baby that was stillborn. The new master of Castlemuir confines the young woman to his inner sanctum to nurse his son, but his desire for the silent girl drives him to take dangerous risks, unaware that Tess poses the greatest danger to him of all.
        In Jester, Dumas is a hideously deformed clown who travels the countryside in a caravan with his young assistant, Fallon. Fallon is a young woman disguised as a boy who made a terrible bargain with Dumas to save her life. In return for keeping her identity a secret, Fallon must perform for the misshapen man each night. But Dumas has a secret of his own as Fallon soon learns after a performance at Castlemuir Hall.
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  Dark Redeemer Historical Romance is a series of stand-alone adventure-romance tales set in 13th Century England during the reign of King John, known as the High Middle Ages. The stories contain scenes, language and themes intended for a mature audience. Sensitive readers are cautioned.