Philippa Kincaid has lost everything except her niece, and she will do whatever the Knights of Malta demand to secure guardianship. Their ancient laws require that three holy knights claim her body and breed her to establish their joint protection over the child.

Ezra Ballard stands at the center of this bargain, his powerful frame and halting stride masking a loneliness that mirrors her own terror of being cast aside. As the knights surround her in the dim chapter house halls, the strategic alliance ignites into something far more dangerous, with each man determined to fill her as part of the binding ritual.

With her back pressed to the cold archive wall and the petition scattered around them, Philippa must yield to the breeding claim before the order learns the truth of their entanglement.