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    Three Dog Knight

    By Tori Phillips

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    THE WHITE ROSE OF YORK WAS NO HOTHOUSE FLOWER

    Nay, Mistress Alicia Broom was a long-stemmed beauty with a dangerous secret of royal proportions. But for a chance to claim her as his promised bride, Thomas Cavendish would fight the hounds of hell !

    Though plots and plans and barking dogs seemed to pursue the Earl of Thornbury wherever he went, Alicia knew she'd found a champion. Mayhap Thomas Cavendish was not what people expected, but the gentle knight had become her heart's desire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin
    Release dateJul 15, 2011
    ISBN9781459261402
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    Three Dog Knight
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    Tori Phillips

    As an Army brat, then a Navy Wife, and now a travel nut, Tori has been packing suitcases for a lifetime. Though born in Washington, D.C., she considers herself a Virginian at heart as this state was her first, and now present home. Tori started first grade in Baltimore, Maryland; finished eighth grade in Heidelberg, Germany; graduated from high school in Bethesda, Maryland; and received her Bachelor's Degree in San Diego, California. Tori and Marty, Tori's husband of 33 years, were married in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, had their children in Honolulu and Detroit, Michigan, and lived all over the map from Newport, Rhode Island to London, England. Along the way, Tori and Marty have met wonderful people, eaten all sorts of strange foods, and enjoyed having lots of mini-adventures. Tori has ridden on camels and elephants, sailed on the Nile in a falucca, and recently petted a live shark. She has bargained in bazaars in Istanbul, Cairo, and London's Portobello Road. Tori has visited castles in England, Scotland, Germany, Liechtenstein, France, Wales, Spain, and Portugal, and attended a royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. She particularly loved floating through the canals of Venice in a gondola. She hiked on warm lava flows in Hawaii's Volcano National Park, and sampled wine in California's Napa Valley. Tori has shivered in the harem of Topkapi, and sweltered inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops. She's tramped knee-deep through a Louisiana bayou, and scrambled over most of the major Civil War battlefields from Shiloh, Tennessee to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Manassas, Virginia. In fact, Tori's house sits on top of the site of a minor Confederate cavalry skirmish known as the Burke Station Raid. She has discovered mine balls in the garden, and she loves to tell visitors that Confederate General JEB Stuart rode right through her living room. Well, he probably did. The area isn't very large. During her children's growing years, Tori hosted a number of pets: a philosophical dog named Toby, a large school of goldfish, several frogs, a white rat named Ratsputan, a couple of gerbils, a guinea pig, a box turtle (briefly), and a hermit crab. Please, don't even ask her about the tarantula that was loose in the house for six weeks. Currently, her next door neighbor's cat thinks he owns the Phillips household. Fabio (the cat) is very partial to spaghetti, chicken, and vanilla ice cream. During all this time, Tori has written diaries, letters, postcards, newsletter stories, and favorite recipes. Also, poetry, which is very private. Her first professional writing, i.e. for money, were a couple of humorous pieces for Teen magazine. Two decades and a zillion rejection slips later, she published four plays, which are still in print. In 1991, her daughter got married, her son moved out, and Tori quit her full-time job as an office manager for a chiropractor. At that point in her life, she decided to take a serious stab at writing a novel. In late 1994, Harlequin bought her third attempt. Fool's Paradise is a Maggie award-winner that takes place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Tori loves to hear from readers. Her address is: Tori Phillips, P.O. Box 10703, Burke, VA 22009-0703 USA.

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    • 4/5
      This was a great light read, both cute and fun!
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      Three Dog Knight is the third book in Tori Phillips’s Cavendish Chronicles. This one takes us back in time to show the meeting and marriage of Thomas and Alicia Cavendish, the parents of Guy and Brandon, the heroes of the first two books. Thomas and Alicia’s fathers betrothed them when she was only seven and he was fourteen. It was a match intended to keep Alicia, an illegitimate offspring of the Plantagenet line, safe from the new Tudor king. They met once at the betrothal and rather hit it off, but didn’t see each other again until ten years later, when Alicia’s foster parents bring her to Thomas’s doorstep as they’re fleeing the country. Thomas had just unexpectedly become the new Earl of Thornbury and is still adjusting to his new role. He does vaguely recall the betrothal and agrees to honor it in spite of all the changes that have occurred since, but he underestimates his conniving newly widowed sister-in-law, Isabel, who is unwilling to give up her place at Wolf Hall. Between his own shyness and awkwardness and the machinations of outside forces, Thomas has his work cut out for him wooing the beautiful Alicia and convincing her of his love.Thomas is the youngest of three brothers and the second-youngest Cavendish overall. He lost his mother at a very young age and his father was an exacting man who always thought Thomas was likely mentally challenged because his quietness. It also didn’t help that he was teased and tormented mercilessly by his two older brothers. He never expected to become the master of Wolf Hall, but that’s exactly what happened when his father and brothers all tragically died of gaol fever. Thomas led a rather lonely existence while growing up, with only his dogs as his most faithful companions. Even now the three hounds follow him everywhere and are his closest confidantes, his only true human friend being his squire, Andrew. Thomas is extremely introverted and barely strings two words together unless he’s in high dudgeon over some injustice, and he becomes completely tongue-tied when in the presence of a beautiful woman. When the grown Alicia shows up at his door, he’s completely smitten, but actually flees the room on more than one occasion, unable to verbalize what he truly wants to say to her. While he may be too shy to speak, he’s a poet at heart, penning some beautifully romantic love notes to her, and he also hides a deeply passionate side that he unleashes only for her. He’s also one of those seemingly rare virgin heroes who’s so nervous about bedding Alicia that he drinks himself into a stupor on their wedding night, which I thought was quite funny. In spite of his shyness, though, Thomas is a skilled and honorable knight. He’s a master huntsman, accomplished with the sword, doesn’t hesitate to protect his own, and runs his castle with fairness and efficiency, while also being unerringly kind and compassionate toward others. Thomas is utterly adorkable, and I couldn’t help falling for this sweet knight. As someone who’s deeply introverted myself and who communicates far better in the written word than verbally, I totally related to him.Alicia is the illegitimate daughter of King Edward IV and one of the last surviving members of the Plantagenet line. This puts her in danger from King Henry VII, the Tudor usurper who is out to kill anyone who might have a claim to the throne. She was raised by foster parents who betrothed her to Thomas to keep her safe. Because the Cavendish family were loyalists, their castle seemed one of the best places she could hide. Although Thomas doesn’t know the whole story at the time she shows up on his doorstep as a grown woman, he proves to be quite understanding and protective when she finally tells him all, calling her his princess. But before they get to that point or manage to get married, there are many internal conflicts as Thomas’s bashfulness leads Alicia to think that he doesn’t like her much and him not signing his love notes leaves her believing someone else wrote them. However, her doubts don’t stop her from falling for him anyway. She proves to be very accepting of Thomas’s quirks when others aren’t. Even when he messes up, like on their wedding night, she can’t stay mad at him for long. Alicia matches Thomas’s sweetness and kindness, but she also proves to have a backbone, never letting Isabel get the best of her. Even when the other woman is being a total shrew, Alicia manages to be the better person while also standing up for herself and Thomas.Three Dog Knight has a number of memorable supporting characters. Isabel makes a cunning and manipulative villain who will literally do anything to maintain her place at Wolf Hall, but who gets a satisfying comeuppance by the end. Thomas’s twelve-year-old sister, Mary, is delightfully mischievous and wise beyond her years. His three dogs, Georgie the Mastiff, Vixen the Greyhound, and Taverstock the terrier are extremely well-drawn animal characters, each with their own little personalities that stand out. We get to see the birth of Thomas and Alicia’s oldest son, Brandon, who becomes the hero of Midsummer’s Knight. And last but not least, is Thomas’s squire, Andrew, an honorable and romantic young man who becomes the hero of the next book, Lady of the Knight.Overall, Three Dog Knight was an absolute pleasure to read. Thomas captured my heart, while Alicia was sweet and relatable. Together, they make a great couple who are very well-matched. The supporting characters keep things lively and interesting. The story is a perfect mixture of drama and comedy. Isabel presents a very real threat to Thomas and Alicia’s relationship and even to Alicia’s life at one point. But at the same time, there is plenty of humor to keep things on the lighter side. Everything came together to make this a delightful book that’s a great addition to the Cavendish Chronicles. I can’t wait to read Andrew’s story, hopefully soon.