title: Sword of Shame
author: Medieval Murderers
description: 1st edition 1st printing paperback new condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
zlib_text: To Tame a Highland Warrior
  
  Karen Marie Moning
  
    
  
  Death itself is better than a life of shame.
  
  Beowulf
  
  MALDEBANN CASTLE
  
  THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND
  
    
  
  1499
  
  THE SCREAMING HAD TO STOP.
  
  He couldn't endure it another minute, yet he knew he was helpless to save
  them. His family, his clan, his
  
  best friend Arron, with whom he'd ridden the heather fields only yesterday,
  and his mother—oh, but his
  
  mother was another story; her murder had presaged this… this… barbaric…
  
  He turned away, cursing himself for a coward. If he couldn't save them and he
  couldn't die with them, at
  
  least he owed them the honor of scribing the events into his memory. To avenge
  their deaths.
  
  One at a tune, if necessary.
  
  Vengeance doesn't bring back the dead. How many times had his father said
  that? Once Gavrael had
  
  believed him, believed in him, but that had been before he'd discovered his
  mighty, wise, and wonderful
  
  da crouched over his mother's body this morning, his shirt bloodstained, a
  dripping dagger in