Audiobook excerpt from Twist of Honor, a historical novel. It's the spring of 1666, and Kit Fitzgeorge, a disabled mercenary soldier, finds himself in desperate straits, unable to earn an honorable living, but unwilling to beg charity. To provide for his young daughter, he agrees to kidnap the youth, wealthy, and widowed Countess of Cranbourne, and deliver her into a forced marriage. Unaware of his true motivations, she hires him as her bodyguard. When he becomes dangerously attracted to her, he finds himself forced to choose between his daughter's welfare and an impossible love.
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