“Ye shouldn’t feel at ease with me. I’m a dangerous man.”

Brendan has spent years living a quiet and honorable life protecting the women in the mysterious convent of Saint Deborah. But his world is upended when Freya—the runaway bride of the ruthless Laird Grahame—stumbles into his home.

Fleeing a loveless marriage, Freya believes she has finally found sanctuary within the convent’s walls. Yet secrets lurk behind Saint Deborah’s doors, and danger draws closer with every passing day.
As Brendan wrestles with his own demons, Freya struggles with her feelings for the man who has become her unexpected protector. When betrayal and war threaten to consume them, will their love endure—or be scattered like ash in the wind?