Only for the strong of heart

This queer historical fiction by Lex Croucher is everything you'd expect from a romance between Robin Hood's granddaughter and the girl she accidentally kidnapped.

Mariel, the feisty, newly promoted captain of the Merry Men, is determined to live up to the legacy of her grandfather, the legendary Robin Hood. Clem, a cheerful forest healer renowned for her innovative treatments, just wants to help people.

When Mariel's makeshift gang kidnaps Clem in retaliation for her guardian siding with the Sheriff of Nottingham, everything seems to be going more or less according to plan... until Jack Hartley, Mariel's father and commander of the Merry Men, is captured in an ambush. Determined to prove her worth, Mariel sets out to rescue her father, taking her annoyingly cheerful hostage along with her.

But the forest is at war. Many believe the Merry Men are no longer on the right side of history. Watching Clem tend to the group's wounds and tell endless terrible jokes, Mariel begins to question the noble cause to which she dedicated her life. As the two grow closer, forced by circumstances to share the same horse and the same bed, one thing becomes clear: they will need to fight for their lives and for all those they have sworn to protect.