Peacocks and Swans

Abandoned by her husband soon after her marriage, Clarice made a new life for herself at court. When her husband Peyton, a national hero, unexpectedly returns to court, Clarice is faced with her past. Yet there is no time to argue, for there is a threat at the palace, and Peyton might be her only means of protection! ***Excerpt*** I felt my husband's beating heart against my ear. He must have been nervous for my response. And I didn't know what to do with that information. I didn't know how to continue now that my world was once again turned upside down. I had made some sort of piece with life at court, without my husband, with Frederick. But now that I was a Lady-in-Waiting to no one, I could suddenly once again be the General's wife.