Taking her hand in his he stepped forward and they stood side by side as the archbishop raised his voice, calling to the people.
“I present to you, Randolph, your sovereign lord, rightful king of Elluria, and his lady…”
She barely heard the rest. The mist that had shrouded the path ahead had lifted now, and she could see clearly at last. This was the world they would share; years of work and duty, made sweet to each by the presence of the other. Behind them stretched the way back out of the cathedral, and beyond that lay the sunshine.
Lucy Gordon
met her husband-to-be in venice, fell in love the first evening and got engaged two days later. They're still happily married and now live in England with their three dogs. For twelve years, Lucy was a writer for an English women's magazine. She interviewed many of the world's most interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir John Gielgud.
In 1985 she won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Outstanding Series Romance Author. She has also won the 1990 Romance Writers of America RITAВ® Award in the Best Traditional Romance category for Song of the Lorelei.
