About the Author:
Award-winning author Mary Reed McCall (historical)/M. Reed McCall (contemporary) was a finalist for Romance Writer's of America's Best First Book RITA Award and has won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Medieval Romance. She grew up in a rural area of Upstate New York as part of a large and loving family. Before becoming a writer, she first considered a career in national security, studying for a brief time at the University of Leningrad before completing undergraduate degrees in Russian and English back in the United States, followed by a Master's degree in English Literature. The sixth of seven girls in her family, Mary now makes her permanent home in New York State, with her husband and children. When she is not writing or involved with family activities, she teaches high school and college level English.
From Booklist:
Brandan de Cantor is frantic with worry. While he was away fighting in the Crusades, his nefarious uncle sold his beloved younger sister, Elizabeth, into prostitution, and now Brandan must find her. But as a knight of the realm and the son of a noble justice, he has no idea where to look. Desperate, he enlists the reluctant help of the notorious prostitute known as "The Crimson Lady," Giselle de Coeur. Giselle, going by the name of Fiona Byrne, is now a respectable owner of an embroidery shop, and although she might be Brandan's only hope, she has no desire to return to the sadistic man who bought her from her mother and who it took her years to escape. McCall's winning and romantic tale of an honorable knight who becomes an outlaw to attain justice and a virtuous courtesan who risks her freedom for a girl she's never met will appeal to fans of medieval romances with strong heroines, such as those by Haywood Smith and Jude Deveraux. Shelley Mosley
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