Thorns of Truth; Blood Bonds (Volume 3)

Blood kinships bound the realm together. Blood feuds tore it apart. Spring finds Ranulf de Rogé intent on fulfilling his self-imposed task to keep his one-time mistress and her son – possibly his son too – out of his brother Joffroi's bloodstained hands and deliver them to Valéntien. Though Juliène and the cub have been promised a welcome and refuge there, the long-running blood-feud between Rogé and Valenne means that Ranulf's own fate under falcon law is likely to be altogether more brutal. At the same time he must also deal with the bitter knowledge that Juliène's sister, Rowène - the woman he once misused and now cannot forget - is dead, and will no longer haunt his dreams, condemned as she is to walk alone for all eternity through the white-flowered meadows beyond the moon. That is, until a bloody confrontation with his elder brother leads to an unexpected meeting with her wraith on the shores of Taneth-Rath Tarn and causes him to question what suddenly appears to be a singularly convenient truth.