Welcome
back to Medieval Monday. Today is our fifth excerpt. Today, I’m hosting Ashley
York. In her story, Lachlann’s Legacy an 11^th century
highlander who must deceive a lovely woman living among outcasts in order to
save his priory, but it’s his heart that’s truly at stake…

Lachlann
is injured and Ethne is seeing to him. He’s just realized his injury happened
days ago. He’s asked her how long his pain will last. Today’s excerpt finds him
waiting for her answer.

 

Excerpt 5

When their eyes met, her hand stopped. “Ye should be
careful not to rip it open.”

He glanced beyond her where Finn slept beside the fire, no
doubt having fallen asleep waiting for her to be done caring for his wound.
“Did Domelch go as well?”

“She decided to join them at the last minute.” Ethne
dropped the cloth into the bowl. With a single finger, she traced the roundness
of the impressions on his skin, the straight lines crossed like feathers on the
shaft of an arrow. “Where did ye get these markings?”

“I do not know. I have always had them.” He looked around
him. “Is my satchel about?”

You’ll have to wait until next week and visit Sherry
Ewing  for Excerpt
6 o find out what’s in Lachlann’s satchel that’s so important.

 

Lachlann’s Legacy
The Order of the Scottish Thistle

By Ashley York

Hidden secrets could tear them apart as fast
as their passion drove them together

On the Moray coast in Scotland…

Ethne’s genuine and caring nature makes her
invaluable to her brother as his son’s caretaker, but he and his wife treat her
as little more than their servant. When she learns their tribal leader would
use her chaste status for his own purposes, Ethne plans to escape and
reluctantly accepts the help of Lachlann—a handsome pilgrim she only just met
at the local faire.

Despite her independent spirit, Ethne feels
drawn to Lachlann. Her instincts say his intentions are honorable, but can she
trust him with her heart?

Raised by his godfather with few clues to his
family’s past, Lachlann values his freedom and the brotherhood of his
highlander kin. Disguised as a pilgrim on a mission for the priory, he
encounters Ethne, a warm, intelligent maiden whose courage in the face of a
loveless marriage awakens an intense need to protect her.

Unfortunately, Ethne is one of the very people
he must deceive to explore the cave system containing clues to the lost
treasure he seeks. But he cannot abandon her to an uncertain fate—or deny the
simmering tension between them.

With religious prejudice
running high and both of them facing tests of loyalty, Lachlann and Ethne may
realize the only way to fight for their futures is to surrender… to each
other.

 

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You can find Ashley York at www.ashleyyorkauthor.com