“If there is a life after this, I want tae find ye in it.”

With war at their gates, Adaira must defend the Finlay people in her brother’s absence. She never expected salvation to come in the form of a deadly enemy with haunted eyes.

Niall is hired as a mercenary to protect the laird’s widowed sister—a woman whose fire threatens the walls he’s built around his heart.

But as danger closes in, keeping his vow may cost him more than his life. In the ruins of war, can love rise—or will fate tear them apart forever?