26 He had to go down there. He had heard it in her words last night. Joanna had her own plans regarding the dispensing of justice to the women she held responsible for her parents’ death. And Gavin was certain it involved that underground crypt. With the priest still gone and Athol not completely recovered from his injuries, the laird knew that he had to rely on his own memory and find his way back to Hell’s Gate. Padding through the underground passages, Gavin felt certain he would find the crypt. He would find it as surely as he would eventually find his way through the secrets of Ironcross Castle’s past. And he was driven to find the truth...the only truth that Joanna continued to hold back from him. The truth she felt the need to die for. Well, she would not die. He would not let

