title: Keeper of Secrets: Translations of an Incident
author:  Anjuelle Floyd 
description: "Karmic truth, the effect of our decisions with our secrets and our deepest loves, comes back and squeezes the hearts of these characters. The elegant, super-rich, super-accomplished African-Americans in Keeper of Secrets are as susceptible as anyone to conflicting passions, ones that may not be reconcilable in this world... Floyd pulls the reader into their lives without mercy." --Clive Matson, author of <i>Let the Crazy Child Write!</i> and <i>First Ten Songs</i>
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  > Within the enemy’s walls
  
  > Badly disfigured Lady Isobel Dalceann has fought fiercely to defend her
  > keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger
  > within her walls? While he threatens danger, his battered body marked by war
  > mirrors her own scars and tempts her to put her faith in him.
  
  > Marc de Courtenay is a mercenary and a loner, although he is drawn to
  > damaged—beautiful—Isobel. But in taking him into her highly defended,
  > buttressed walls, she has unwittingly given him secrets that will enable him
  > to betray her. What would she do if she were ever to find out who he really
  > is...?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > They had broken through and flooded into the castle just as she had sat down
  > for a rest.
  
  > She had not had the time to gather her gloves or headgear, but had been
  > caught in the flight downstairs where she now fought back against as many of
  > the enemy as she could.
  
  > “Nooo.”
  
  > A keening cry of fur