pstrongThey call him The Protector.strongppbrppBut once upon a time, he was a knight who had failed in his greatest duty.ppbrppIt has been said that the Plantagenet royal family is full of vipers. No one knows that so well as Sir Fox de Merest, a knight of the highest order once given the ultimate assignment - to protect a royal bastard from the rage of Eleanor of Aquitaine. It was a task he failed miserably at - he fell in love with the woman he was supposed to protect. That failure resulted in her being committed to a nunnery.ppbrppAs the trainer known as The Protector at the most elite warrior training school in England, Fox has carved out a niche for himself training new recruits and distancing himself from the crushing failure of being unable to protect his love from a furious dowager queen. No one knows of his past, but ten years after his abject failure, the subject rears its ugly head again.ppbrppFox's lady love was strongGisele of Hampshire, strong royal offspring of Henry the