Amelia is more than a damsel in distress—she’s a Sassenach bride on the run.

She never wanted to be a pawn in her father’s game, sold to a cruel Scottish Laird to pay his debts. Fleeing her cruel fate, she plunges into the wild Highlands, only to be caught by Laird Arran Aitken, a brooding Highlander with a fiery gaze. He’s everything she fears, and everything she secretly desires.

Arran knows he shouldn’t get involved, but seeing the strange Sassenach lass bathing in the river has sparked something inside him too wild to ignore. To protect her from a fate worse than death, he claims her as his own, offering her a marriage of convenience that could be her salvation—or his own downfall.

When the rugged Highlander takes his new bride back to the Keep, a dangerous dance of passion and lust begins between the unlikely newlyweds. With danger lurking in the shadows, can this all-consuming attraction turn into trust and strengthen their bond, or will the secrets sever it before it turns into something real?