They were ill-matched...
He's charming and deadly.
She's intoxicating and skeptical. What happens when an English lady with a secret meets a Scottish Highlander with a history?
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Lady Elizabeth Kendall is on the run...
There is no one she can trust.
Her parents are dead.
And... her uncle seeks to involve her in a terrible plot!Â
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 There is only one solution, one hope for her.Â
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That is to run north.
Her cousin Devon Montgomery holds an English claim on Scottish land.
She disguises herself as a maid, never thinking what is ahead of her.Â
.The only one who can help her is the blank-shield soldier who pulls her from a terrible situation.
Reade MacTaggart.Â
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But ... Reade is not as he seems.
He's no more a mercenary than she is a maid.
Instead ... he's a Scottish Highlander, the younger brother of Laird MacTaggart--of the infamous Clan Mactaggart.Â
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There is only one reason that Reade came south.
That is to spy for his clan.Â
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Just when he thought to go home, an English girl with more beauty than money falls into his lap, and Reade finds that he cannot resist.
In a dark and violent era, Elizabeth and Reade find each other, but will they be able to keep each other?
Or will she be taken from him?
