Another step in the right direction for the Velvet series! This one takes the third brother, Raine Montgomery, and matches him with an extraordinary young singer named Alyx Blackett. The two of them face different challenges than the characters in the earlier two books; this one seems mostly to be a cautionary tale about not allowing one's pride to blind oneself to the ways other people are trying to help. It does contain the classic Deveraux "woman realizes she's wrong, wrong, wrong" scene, and I think that scene is unfair and unnecessary, but then I always do. I'd like to know who thinks those scenes are a good idea, frankly. ( )

From BackCover:
They were both outcasts by a harsh decree, on the brink of a shared destiny of passion!

With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackett fled to the woods -- and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king's edict.

There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery's squire.

But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man's desires be blind? And soon -- even as a blood raged between the Montgomerys and the Chatworths, as angry swords clattered in the name of family honor -- one woman's love would make all the difference... one woman's love would inflame a hero's passion, touch a king's pity and raise a song of praise in every English heart. ( )