title: My Love: A Celebration of Romance, Passion & Devotion in Classic Art & Verse
author: Dickinson, Yeats, Shakespeare, and many more Byron
description: Joe Gannon is the author of thirteen nonfiction illustrated books including Castles: Royal Homes and Fortresses of Europe. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at Hofstra University in the English Departments undergraduate Publishing Studies program. He lives, with his wife Amy, in Northport, New York, where he runs a publishing services company.
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  FOR LOVE AND HONOR
  
  By Kathryn Le Veque
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2007 by Kathryn Le Veque  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.  
  
  
    
  Printed by Dragonblade Publishing in the United States of America  
  
  
    
  
  Text copyright 2007 by Kathryn Le Veque  
  Cover copyright 2007 by Kathryn Le Veque
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Barbara and Ed
  
  Very honorable people
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Out of Chaos, God made a world,
  
  And out of high passions, comes a people.
  
  \- Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824, British Poet
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  England
  
  April, 1469 A.D.
  
  It was a lovely night to die.
  
  He stood a moment, inhaling the gentle night air, feeling the caress of the
  blooming flora. The black waters of the River Thames ran at his feet, the
  gentle glide of a liquid caress. It was a soothing sound. He wondered if the
  water would feel soothing as it entered his lungs, choking