title: An Ancient Evil: The Knight's Tale of Mystery and Murder As He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury
author:  P. C. Doherty 
description: The author of the Hugh Corbett medieval stories (Murder Wears a Cowl) begins a new series based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The pilgrims decide to ease the hardship of their journey with tales told by each of them in turn. The Knight is first off with this story of the Strigoi, a demon who, with his minions, drinks human blood and can be destroyed only by fire. Two centuries earlier, Sir Hugo Mortimer of Oxfordshire, under orders from King William, captured the Strigoi and buried him alive beneath his tower keep. Now, in the Oxford of the 1400s, corpses drained of blood keep turning up. Sir Godfrey Evesden, a blind woman exorcist and a young Scotsman are commissioned by the King to seek out and destroy the murderer. The three roam the reeking streets of Oxford, the corridors of the University and the Trinitarian friary built over the Strigoi's old keep. After several hair-raising encounters with the undead, they end their mission in a sea battle. Or do they? The Strigoi will doubtless rise again. Doherty's masterly evocation of medieval England will leave readers looking forward to the tale of the Wife of Bath. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  KING
  
  
  (SINISTER KNIGHTS #2)
  
  
  by
  
  
  ARIA COLE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  King Williams has seen the other side of hell, his tortured solitude hiding
  pain behind the cut of his marble jaw. Stubborn fortitude has gotten him this
  far, but one night with Piper at a club party is all it takes to unravel the
  walls he's built. Now he can't get her out of his head. His obsessive need
  rages before he pulls her in so deep both of their lives land on the line. The
  only thing that matters might be the only thing he can't protect.
  
  
  
  
  
  When Piper Parish spots King, high-ranking member of the Sinister Knights MC,
  nearly naked late one night, it isn't the first time he’s caught her eye. It
  is, however, the first time she's set eyes on the cobblestoned abs and
  chiseled lines etched into this bad boy's body. Like a flash of lightning in
  the darkness, Piper finds herself thrown into a whirlwind ride with the
  brooding biker...a ride he will never let her forget.
  
  
  
  
  
  Warning: King is one sexy, moody Harley ridin' bad