The O'Donnell Family Saga Book 3: Alliance -Marie and Tomas: 2

Donegal, 1567. The O'Donnell keep has only just stopped grieving.Lady Marie O'Donnell has no interest in the marriage her mother keeps raising at dinner. She would rather be in the scriptorium tower with a boundary charter and a sharp pen, where her mind is worth something and no one is calculating her dowry. Then she overhears two men in a darkened hallway discussing her brother's guard rotations - and the poison meant for him before sundown.The only other person in that corridor is Tomas MacNamara: heir to a minor clan, insufferably calm, and holding the other half of what she just learned. He has been tracking a traitor for three moons. She knows every stair, servant, and secret in the castle. Neither can move without the other.What begins as a wary partnership becomes something far more dangerous - because the spy feeding the conspiracy is inside these walls, the English agent behind it works out of the Pale, and Marie's father was murdered by someone the family trusted. Proof must come before the alarm, or they lose their only chance to catch the traitor in the act.An alliance forged in the dark. A love neither of them planned. And a clan that will not survive being wrong.