“This thing between us, Elsie—you know it can’t last.”

Elsie, a quiet beauty who lives in her cousin’s shadow, longs for adventure beyond the castle walls. But when she slips away to a village festival, her night of freedom becomes a nightmare. Mistaken for the Laird’s daughter, Elsie is abducted by a mercenary with a brooding charm and a deadly mission. Her captor’s plan was simple: ransom the laird’s fiery daughter for a fortune. Yet, he’s taken the wrong woman.

Now, in the rugged isolation of the Highlands, Elsie is forced into an uneasy bond with the man who intended to use her as a pawn. As she fights to escape his hold on her heart, she glimpses the secrets and scars that lie beneath his hardened exterior. Against the odds, a forbidden passion ignites between them.

But with the truth looming and loyalties tested, they must decide: risk everything to follow their hearts or surrender to the fate that brought them together?