TO TAME A HAWK
SCOTLAND
1 APRIL 1513
SIDHEACH JAMES LYON DOUGLAS, THIRD EARL OF DALKEITH, stalked across the floor. Droplets of water trickled from his wet hair down his broad chest, and gathered into a single rivulet between the double ridges of muscle in his ab-domen. Moonlight shimmered through the open window, casting a silvery glow to his bronze skin, creating the illu-sion that he was sculpted of molten steel.