What will happen when an ugly, scarred, battle-hardened female knight – veteran of the Starvation Sieges and soldier for the king – becomes bodyguard to the Earl of Brixton, a man whose endless female conquests call him “The Master”? What will happen when the Earl witnesses the strength and valor of the Black Knight, a woman of grim duty and fierce temper, a woman who can kill a man as easily as she can crush a fly? And what will befall them as they make the long journey through hostile lands? “The Arts of Love and War” is a tale of great courage – great peril – and great love.