Baron Geoffrey Berkley has come to find the murderers and bring them to justice. Elizabeth Montwright witnesses the massacre of her family. Still, I enjoyed these two characters and this book served its purpose-to entertain and engage me with an artfully told story about two characters I could root for. Gentle Warrior was Julie Garwood's first published book and set in Medieval England. In contrast, Geoffrey was a strong, dominant presence who would do anything to protect his bride, though he may have been ruled a bit too much by reason and order for my liking. Elizabeth was a passionate and fiesty heroine who was just headstrong enough that I admired her, without being so over the top and impetuous as to be annoying. From Honour's Splendour to The Prize to The Bride, Garwood's historicals are always on point. Whenever you're in the mood for a well thought out and elegantly told romance novel, look no further than Julie Garwood. She wants nothing more than for her family's deaths to be avenged, but she can't help it if she falls in love along the way. When she meets the fiercesome, arrogant knight called The Hawk, Elizabeth can't help but fall under his spell. Taking to the woods near her childhood home, Elizabeth waited for her father's overlord, Baron Geoffrey Berkley, to return to the Montwright lands and dispel the raiders who invaded her home.

Garwood's historicals are always on pointĮlizabeth Montwright was just a teenager when she watched her entire family be slaughtered at the hands of brutal warriors.

Gentle warrior by julie garwood