“Ye’re not just a Gilmour. Ye’re the one I’d kneel for.”

Nessa Gilmour will bleed for her clan before she bows to a husband. Turning the Highland tradition on its head, she challenges every would-be suitor to a duel.

Corran Nicolson is a mysterious wanderer with a wicked grin and eyes like stormfire. Sent to join the Gilmour guard, he expects a new Laird, not a blade-wielding hellcat with a vendetta. She infuriates him. She entrances him. And she just might be his undoing.

When enemies draw near and loyalty is tested, Nessa must decide—can she trust the man she swore to defeat? Or will giving in to her heart cost her everything she’s fought to protect?