The Mercenary's Bride (The Knights of Brittany #3) Brice Fitzwilliam is finally paid his due: awarded the title and lands of Thaxted, the warrior waits to claim his promised virgin bride! But 19 year old Gillian of Thaxted will be no man's prize! She will not submit to the conquering knight's powerful physique, dark, piercing eyes or the bold way his arm drapes protectively over her at night…. Brice thought he would pleasure his new wife out of duty—but it's become a nightly pleasure of his own! Now he risks exposing a chink in his armor if he succumbs totally to his new bride….