William and Madeleine are deeply in love--but love may not be enough to win the day Madeleine Hazell and William de Bulmer have been married a year. She is a healer, a wise woman, practical, intelligent, and blunt. He is not only an ex--monk, but an ex--abbot, a man accustomed to authority, a gifted administrator, at home with figures--but less capable in matters such as shutting up chickens for the night. They are deeply, irrevocably...