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"The Sun and the Moon is a real page turner. I really wish I hadn't started it so late at night. It kept me up way past my bedtime and there is no stronger recommendation than that."
--The Romance Reader

  • Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice award for
    Best Historical Romantic Mystery/Suspense
  • Nominated for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance.
  • Featured in the Rhapsody Book Club


The Sun and Moon The Sun and the Moon
June 2000
ISBN 0-451-200032-2


The Sun:
King Henry's most valued spy, Hugh of Wexford, likes his wine, his women...and above all, his freedon. Scarred by a brutal upbringing, Hugh vowed long ago to make his own way in the world, unhindered by ties of any kind--especially those of love.

The Moon:
Oxford scholar Phillipa de Paris is learned, enlightened...and painfully innocent in the ways of the world--especially the lascivious intrigue that she encounters when Hugh recruits her for a critical espionage mission.

A Match Made in Heaven:
To expose the schemes of corrupt churchman Aldous Ewing and save England from yet another civil war, the rough-and-tumble warror and the innocent intellectual embark on a dangerous ruse as bored husband and wife. As Phillipa tempts ands teases the traitor, will she be able to convince Ewing to share his confidences? Or will Hugh and Phillipa's lies be revealed and their lives endangered by the undeniable, irresistable force of passion flaring between them?