Synopsis
Gareth is a mercenary who has spent his life moving through danger, carrying no family and no attachments. It's a hard existence, and yet he turns around one day and offers Elena a place in it — his private refuge, of all things. Elena is the oldest daughter of the Townsend family, which is falling apart at the seams. The ancestral home is going under, poverty is closing in, and so she makes her choice: she marries him. She ends up being something like a steady lantern in the middle of his darkness. Quiet, but there. Gareth on the other…
