Green Grow the Rushes (Culcannagh, #1)

Whit's beloved sister, Hraga, is engaged to be married. Voyaging ahead of her to the Mornhalle, the homeland of her future husband, he expects an uneventful journey. But when the nuptial celebration is threatened by delay, he agrees to stand in for Hraga at a proxy wedding–and finds her betrothed, Osfrid, to be handsome, quick to laugh, and eager to offer Whit his friendship.

Twenty-five years have passed since then. When sudden tragedy reunites him with Osfrid, and an irresistible invitati...