The Summer Knight's Secret
A Renaissance Faire Romance

About this book:

The Ohio humidity is thick, the armor is heavy, and Arthur Collins has never felt more at home. Escaping a suburban summer of relentless questions about his nonexistent love life, seventeen-year-old Arthur signs on as a squire at the Nottingham Valley Renaissance Faire, trading awkward silences for the clean, demanding logic of leather straps, steel plates, and half-ton draft horses. Here, nobody cares who you want to kiss—they only care if you can check a girth strap before the joust begins. Under the gruff mentorship of fight director Bertram, Arthur discovers a surprising competence in the grease and grit of the lists, a place where his quiet intensity isn't a flaw but a vital asset.

Then Rowan Gallagher arrives to play the Green Knight: magnetic, reckless, and riding like they have nothing left to lose. Where Arthur is deliberate, Rowan is fire; where Arthur hides, Rowan performs. But behind the crooked grin and the impossible lance work lies a rider running from a past season's scandal, and a restless energy that matches the hum Arthur has felt under his skin his whole life. As the summer season unfolds—through midsummer processions, backstage betrayals, and the escalating danger of the Grand Tournament—Arthur and Rowan circle each other in the dust and the lantern light, learning that the strongest armor isn't forged in steel, but in the terrifying, exhilarating act of letting someone see the cracks.

*The Summer Knight's Secret* is a lush, slow-burn Renaissance Faire romance about found family, the quiet magic of competence, and two young people discovering that the only thing more dangerous than a twenty-mile-an-hour charge down the tilt rail is the risk of finally being known.