title: My Lord Raven: Knights of the Royal Household
author:  Jan Scarbrough 
description: <span>Writing</span><b>My Lord Raven</b><span>was a labor of love. It took a long time with many starts, stops, and twists along the way. I fell in love with medieval history and romance in high school with authors Thomas B. Costain and Anya Seton. Later the romance genre made medieval heroines popular. I'm thinking of the Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss.</span>
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  He looked like every girl’s dream and their chaperons’ worst nightmare.
  
  Even the blue coat, fawn breeches and top boots of a country gentleman did
  nothing to detract from the danger signaled by his sardonic mouth and
  fathomless dark eyes. Add in curling dark hair as black as a raven’s wing, and
  it was little wonder she had been momentarily dazed, she told herself.
  
  She could envisage him on the quarterdeck of a privateer, or grimly determined
  as he charged into battle like a latter-day Achilles—but tamed by velvet and
  ermine and sitting in the House of Lords? Something told her he would hate
  such ceremonial splendor. The very thought of it made her smile as she came
  out of her reverie to greet the latest Earl of Carnwood.
  
  “So the prodigal returns,” he remarked, with a smile that did little to soften
  his stern expression.
  
  A Less Than Perfect Lady  
  Harlequin®Historical
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author Note
  
  I can’t resist spending time with stubborn, irresistible heroes and feisty,
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