A Forged Affair

She's fearless about everything except the one thing that might actually save her.

Niki Ballantyne has spent a decade being extraordinary — search and rescue specialist, parkour athlete, the woman who runs toward danger while everyone else runs away. A summer cycling solo through the sun-drenched south of France was supposed to be a break. Instead she stumbles into a medieval festival in a golden Aquitaine village, adopts a gentle giant of a blacksmith who reminds her of everything she's lost, and finds herself squarely in the orbit of the most