He had no weakness. Until he met her.

Iona knows she has to run. As soon as her father announces her betrothal to a brute who had murdered his first wife, she decides to escape to save her life. Fleeing to the woods that had claimed her mother’s life, the Laird’s daughter soon realizes that only one thing stands between her and her freedom: Fergus Balfour.

Fergus has claimed the lives of countless men, acquiring the title of “The Reaper.” Upon receiving an unusual contract to retrieve Laird Anderson’s runaway daughter, the cunning warrior knows the lass will never escape him. No one ever has.

While the deadly Highlander closes in on his prey, Iona is faced with the harsh reality; she was never meant to survive this forest, but she would rather die in her temporary freedom than at the hand of a cruel husband. Finding the lass in the perilous woods, Fergus wonders what would make a Laird’s daughter risk her life like that.

As Fergus captures Iona and is set to return the lass to her father and her betrothed, she awakens something in a heart that had long turned to stone. Will the lass be able to turn “The Reaper” back to a man, or will she suffer the cruel fate her father has condemned her to?