The Knight's Healer
by Margaret BennettPublish: Jul 07, 2025Historical Mystery Historical Romance Historical Fiction Christian Fiction Teen & Young AdultBook Overview
A healer with a secret past.A knight on a mission to discover a nobleman’s plot to start a war.
Together they face the evil forces out to destroy them.
With an official of King John’s court spewing lies to provoke war between Rylan’s father’s fife and a neighboring baron’s, Rylan disguises himself as a woodcutter to spy upon the enemy’s castle to uncover the truth. It also affords him an opportunity to get a look at the Baron’s daughter, a potential wife selected by his father for him. Only he’s discovered and, while fleeing, is hit by an arrow in his shoulder. Fortunately, he evades capture with the help of a healer.
Or is she? He’s intrigued by her elegance, refined speech, and intellect, and suspects she’s the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman.
Annora’s quiet life as the village healer is threatened when she discovers a badly wounded stranger hiding in her cottage. She soon realizes he’s an enemy warrior on a mission and, caught up in a web of political deceit, finds herself accused of witchcraft by the Baron’s daughter. Now the nightmare of her mother’s fate of being burned at the stake many years ago soon becomes her own as she faces trial for practicing the dark arts.
But Rylan is determined to protect Annora, even to the point of defying his sire and forfeiting his inheritance.
