Summary
A weather-bruised knight, Sir Gerard of the dwindling estates, weds the grave-cold promise bequeathed by a battle-fallen comrade: the comrade’s nubile daughter, the last sprig of a dying bloodline. Yet the union’s bed is a catafalque of silence; the old warrior’s seed, once thunderous on crusade fields, now dribbles like candle wax. Enter Don Lucio di Malvasia, a Tuscan satyr wrapped in velvet damnation, whose whispers of fertile valleys and sun-gorged grapes slither through the castle’s arrow-slits. The girl—half orphan, half currency—offers herself as sacrament, thighs parting like chapel doors so that the foreigner’s pulse may graft new sap onto a blighted tree. Nine moons later a squalling heir, blue-eyed but olive-skinned, crowns the crib: a living testament to cuckoldry that the knight chooses to call providence, because history spares no footnotes for the humiliated.
Synopsis
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter and she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
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