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Some actions are forever… Gruff and straight-forward, Broc McFadden has always had one passion. To be on the sea. And then he meets the sister-in-law of his former captain Derek. He wouldn’t have met her if he hadn’t agreed to help Derek by traveling to a land where he was wanted, which puts him in the clutches of a mortal enemy. Fierce and loyal, Beatrice cannot sit idly by and watch the Highlander man who’s captured her heart punished unjustly. And yet, she’s betrothed to the Lord Randall a man whose handsomeness rivals his cruelty.

Love comes around a second time… Clyde McMannis is not exactly happy. Who would be with his bairns and the love of his life gone? But he manages. He keeps his pain at bay with the ones he’s become close to. All of that changes when a familiar face from his long-forgotten past finds him and makes him an offer. Ailsa Dunne lost her true love and husband to war. She feels it fitting to fulfil his purpose and serve Scotland. When called to serve training young women to be assassins and spies, she answers the call. If only she could teach them everything. Alas, she cannot, so she must rely ...

Blair MacManus will not let a man tell her how to run her life. She will not let Laird Fergus Campbell betroth her to a man in his guardsman troops. She wants to follow in her dear departed mother’s footsteps. She wants to be a healer. Laird Campbell considers Blair practically as a daughter. One that needs to be bent to his will. She’ll be no man’s bride. That is not in the cards for Blair. Nae at all. Jameson Connor’s lands have been stolen by a lowlife. He’s living among brigands and refugees from clan wars. He and his men are constantly living on the fringe of society, making ...

A Highlander loves forever... This book in the Highland Heartbeats brings us a wonderful love story for Padraig Anderson, Rodric’s younger brother who now heads the Anderson clan and has seen his brother and all of his friends find his happily ever after while he’s stayed the course and run the family business. Margaret is an assassin with the Order. Until she can’t perform her last assignment. Now she’s on the run, disguised as a lad, and facing down scoundrels outside brothels. Until she’s rescued by Sorcha and Moira and brought to the Clan Anderson homestead. Who said life ...

Like battles, some redemptions cannot be won... In early 1746, Alasdair Macintyre is headed home after the rout at Culloden on Drummossie Moor, in sight of Inverness. The battle has been lost and scar on his face that makes him so ferocious-looking that even children run from him in terror. He learns his father has betrothed him to a local lass—a nearly blind woman—in exchange for a sizeable dowry and a chunk of land. The woman brings with her a companion that hates him immediately. He has no interest in having a chain around his neck, not even in the form of a woman he once knew as a ...

Highland runaway finds love’s sweet surrender… The Sinclair and the MacFie clans have been feuding for ages. Longer than anyone alive can remember why. They avoid each other at all costs, though their lands border. Laurel Sinclair’s brother has promised her hand to an oaf of a laird to secure payment of their family’s debts. Dismayed and disgusted she takes the only option at hand. She flees. Now that he’s no longer part of the mercenary Iron Wolves, Caelen MacFie’s taken to riding and securing the countryside of his family lands. Imagine his surprise when he finds a strange ...

Highland lass Kristine Somerlad is neither male nor old, and yet, she’s the town elder, tasked with the safeguarding of a village which has been facing attack after attack and calamity after calamity. She’s written to their laird repeatedly, seeking assistance and protection from marauders. To no avail. And now the laird has sent the captain of his guard to collect the tithe. After all they’ve been through, all the losses, and now they want what little the village has. She will do her best to make sure she pays the obligation, though it galls her. Highlander Fergus is a scarred, ...

Mac has lived a life of wandering, never staying in one place for long. But when his friend Blaine asks for help saving their town, Mac finds himself building a home and forming strong bonds with the community. Despite his longing to leave, the people of the town have grown to love him. Blaine sees through Mac's carefree facade and confronts him about the pain that drives him to wander. A dinner conversation forces Mac to confront the truth, but will he stay and face it or continue down his path of running? Ailis, the talented seamstress and shop owner in a small Highland village, is ...

Aiden McArthur’s the ne’er-do-well brother of a laird. He’s a fighter not a lover. Little did he realize that the one chivalrous act he’d ever committed would put him in the sights of their English enemies. He’s under their thumb and has no choice but to spy on his own kind. This doesn’t sit well with him, especially when he determines that he’s to spy on the lovely Cora Flannigan. Cora Flannigan and her brother were orphaned at a very young age. Luckily for the both of them, the Ramseys took them in and offered them much more than a home. They offered them a family. Little ...

When Laird Riderch Stuart and his men are outnumbered and ambushed by brigands he’s frustrated. When he loses to their leader in a one-on-one skirmish, he’s beyond frustrated. When he discovers their leader is a flame-haired, emerald-eyed beauty who brandishes a sword like a professional he’s astounded. Sorcha Morton’s the daughter of a brigand. One of the best. Now she’s taken his place as leader of the band of highway men. She lives a life that she’s come to love, living in caves, stealing from the rich, and often sharing with the needy. She didn’t count on meeting a fair-...

Some memories are best left forgotten… Maccay Douglas finds a trespasser on Duncan lands. Except the trespasser isn’t some lad up to mischief. It’s a woman in boy’s clothing. A woman with a bruise on her head and no name, and hunting skills. She claims she doesn’t know who she is. That doesn’t stop him from falling in love. Except this red-haired beauty has an explosive secret that is bound to bring war to the highlands.

An English heiress has no cause to live in the Highlands. Or does she? Sheriff Colin Ramsey simply wants to keep the peace in the territory. He doesn’t want to have to enforce the Tartan and Dress Act of 1746. Nor does he want to babysit the feisty Highlanders that seek to create chaos and defy the laws—regardless how unjust said laws might be. He doesn’t like complications. Enter Iona Douglas, who brings complications in spades. This stubborn Englishwoman has inherited Scottish Highland property. She scandalously refuses to follow rules or suggestions. She insists—quite stubbornly...

Laird Niall Carrick has no interest in marriage, though the elders of the clan push the young laird to take a wife and guarantee an heir for his bloodline. He has more important matters on his mind. Such as determining who the assassin that keeps making attempts on his life is. After a particularly vicious and unexpected attack on Laird Niall Carrick and his men, Niall is left alone, wounded, and close to death. Seeking the village where he can secure healing, he takes the wrong direction and ends up at a tombstone, bleeding and injured. Considered a witch, Moira’s ostracized by the ...

Dominik MacFie seeks one thing, and one thing alone. Revenge on the man who cost him his life. Lady luck was on Dominik’s side when she put him in the vicinity of the man who’d stolen his heritage, his honor, his pride, and most of all his life. Lady luck had nothing to do with Dominik’s sneaking into the man’s castle to attain vengeance. And he would have, had a comely lass with a bruised face not screamed at the sight of him. Dominik cannot get the bonnie lass from his mind, he has to see her again. Has to find out why her face is bruised. And he has to seek that retribution ...

Iris is heartbroken. Her dear father has passed. Now her mother has promised her to a cad of a laird. What’s a lass to do but run away from certain disaster and violence? Angus’s entire family was lost in a horrible murderous rampage. He alone survived. Now he’s got a scar, a broken heart, and vengeance on the mind. He’s become a man who tends toward rage at the drop of a hat. He’s not the kind of man anyone wants to be around. He’s not remotely interested in romance or friendships or socializing. On a ride with his best friend Lorne, he finds an unconscious lass. When his best ...

Highland promises are forever... Keith MacFarlane’s a man on a mission. Find the babe. It is not for him to question orders. A man raised on the horse, wielding the sword, he is prone to obeying commands, even when those commands might go against the grain. Eidith Gilbraith does not yield to any man. She’s been charged with protecting the wee ones from outsiders, especially a golden-haired bairn who’s captured her heart. She wields a pistol with a confidence that is all bluster as she shuns the newcomer who asks too many questions. When the true identity of the bairn is revealed, will...

Forever seeking salvation… Rodric Anderson isn't a soldier anymore. Nay, many would refer to him as a mercenary-a soldier for hire. He's embroiled in a Duncan clan matter. He's also hunted by the authorities, wanted by women, and tied to none. He's a part of a band of brothers, all former soldiers, some outlaws, all who make themselves available for the right coin-sometimes, the right cause. One woman has caught his eye. A shrew of a woman. Why was it he could not get her out of his mind? Caitlin's hand has been given in marriage by her wretch of a stepfather to a man who is no less a ...

Athdar has always had a charmed life. More or less. The son of a laird, he spent his time soldiering, carousing, and wenching at another laird’s castle. Now, however, he’s come home and his chickens seemed to have come home to roost as well. His father’s preparing to turn the lairdship over to Athdar one day, but first, Athdar must be wed. He’s to choose a wife from among a list of eligible daughters of nearby lairds. This handsome highlander’s not having it. What’s a highlander to do? Vanish, of course. And start a new life. Orphaned Highland healer Rhona has a dream and a ...

Some words are meant forever… Ysmaine’s half Scottish, half French, all attitude and independence. Quinn’s a mercenary that needs more cash than the recent jobs have been providing. She’s got the means to money. He’s got a need for it. She’s not willing to do what needs to be done for the money. He’s willing to kidnap and hold her for ransom. Until… Until a Frenchman with a title and no morals steps into the picture. Now… Things have changed.

Isla of Tolbain has just been told by her father that she’s betrothed to a highland laird, Finlay of Seannae. Though at first concerned, she recognizes the importance of the union between her clans. Then she meets Finlay and he’s a fine young man who courts her with charm and consideration. She realizes that it’s not a bad thing to have a union that isn’t love based. Until she meets the man who makes her heart beat faster and her pulse race. Ewan McAbee received a letter from his brother, the laird of Duffus that he’s abdicating his position. Now Ewan, a man who’s fond of his ...