“I said I dinnae like easy. I want ye to beg for it, wife.”

Ailsa Kerr attends the MacFadden matchmaking feast to find a new husband. Tavish MacDonald, her late fiancé’s brother, is the last man she’d choose—yet when he claims her, something dark in her soul answers.

Tavish wants a wife who won’t break. Ailsa wants a man who won’t try to tame her. But his darkness calls to something deep inside her—a craving she never knew she had.

As secrets close in and danger stalks her every step, Ailsa must decide—can she trust the man who wants to own her body… and claim her soul?