"800-year-old cursed crusader finds redemption with modern princess."

Along with being a princess comes great responsibility, and Isabella takes her job very seriously. For 28 years, she's stayed away from the tabloid reporters, who continually stalk her family.

Her latest project is a labor of love. She promised her deceased mother she'd do everything in her power to revitalize the Royal Museum in San Rimini. Isabella flies to Boston to ask Nick Black, an expert on San Rimini art history, to return home with her to catalog her family's massive private collection of artifacts and historical documents. The century-old pieces are in storage beneath the royal palace.

Is this finally the answer to Nick's prayers? Could he find the documents necessary to unlock the curse put on him 800 years earlier? "Until you can forget your ambition and sacrifice your own desires for the sake of another, you will know neither happiness of this world nor the peace of death..."

In San Rimini, Nick and Isabella find more than either of them expected. Isabella knows Nick is the knight in shining armor who can save her from a lonely life. But, he's harboring a deep secret that keeps him from loving her completely. Nick has never felt the sense of belonging he feels with Isabella, but he desperately fights his attraction until he can come to her a free man.

Even if you're not a fan of the paranormal, you'll still find this story charming and captivating. A beautifully crafted, highly original and wonderful love story, A Knight's Kiss will steal your heart. Also read Going to the Castle and A Prince's Tutor, two more treasures about San Rimini and the diTalora family. Pure reading enjoyment.

Reviewed by Suzanne Tucker
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted April 15, 2003

Summary

When beautiful Princess Isabella of San Rimini needed an expert to catalogue the artifacts stored in the royal palace, all roads led directly to dark, mysterious Nick Black -- a contemporary example of potent masculinity if ever there was one. Yet thanks to a medieval curse, Nick Black had been around for a long time...a very long time.

In fact, once he'd been known as Domenico of Bollazio, an ambitious knight who would never know peace -- or mortality -- until he learned to put someone else's welfare before his own. In taking this assignment, Nick hoped to find an ancient trick to break his curse. Little did he know that close contact her lovely highness, Isabella, might help him to find mortality -- and love -- the old- fashioned way!