Lady Blythe Dunbar knows the type of man she’s expected to marry. After her oldest sister marries a Scottish man raised by the English King Edward I, and her middle sister unexpectedly marries a widower, Blythe knows her parents expect her to settle down with a more staid husband. But that’s the problem: Blythe doesn’t want to settle. Not when she can’t forget the devilish man who appears at court just often enough to break her heart.

When Sir Donald MacDonald, Baronet of Sleat meets trews-wearing, musket-wielding, redheaded Mary of Castleton, he’s completely flummoxed. Such a woman would never fit in to his aristocratic way of life. And Mary wants nothing to do with her father’s wishes for her betrothal. Indeed, the two agree on one thing: They are completely, utterly and inarguably incompatible.

But when Mary is abducted from Dunscaith Castle and spirited away in Sir Donald’s sea galley, the baronet has no choice but to mount a rescue. When his plans are thwarted at every turn, Donald and Mary are thrown in a tumultuous a race for their very lives. Though destiny brings them together, Don must face the truth smoldering in the recesses of his heart. Can he cast aside his ideals and declare his love for the saucy Highland lass?

“Forgive me…for I have sinned.”And nothing interrupts a good confession like a murder.Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of r...