Nor Iron Bars a Cage Caprice Hokstad Paperback, 348 pp., $18.95 Vici Publishing (October 11, 2007)
Two baby boys are lost in a hostile country. Scores of knights and bounty hunters have risked their lives trying to retrieve them, yet none can even find a clue to their whereabouts. When all else fails, Duke Vahn sends a strange trio to search—his brave captain, a middle-aged healer, and an Itzi slave. Little does he know what challenges await both the trio and his own house, now forced to survive without its key leaders.
Keedrina is a young peasant maiden who lives on the outskirts of a prosperous seaport town. After marauders kill her family and burn her farmhouse, she meets Duke Vahn, who pursues the killers and then offers Keedrina a position as his indentured servant. With very little left to live on, and intrigued with the handsome young noble, Keedrina accepts. Can the simple farmgirl find a family among the refined servants in the duke’s house? Not if the prejudiced and conniving duchess has her way! Read free chapters at www.Latoph.com.