Daughters of Moirra Dundotter

One falling star. Two wishes. Whose will come true? The love of her life doesn't know she exists. Still, ever the optimist, Mariote Dundotter-McCullum makes a wish on a falling star: to marry the man before her next birthday. Little does she know that someone else is wishing on the same star. When it looks as though her wish to marry will never come true, Mariote decides to settle for someone who has been professing his love for her through beautiful letters. It doesn't matter that he is the son of her father's enemy, or that she can't remember ever meeting him. Mariote believes 'tis better to be loved by someone than never at all. So, she steals away in the middle of the night to make her own joy. There's another who has loved her since the first time he saw her. After learning Mariote has run off to marry someone else, he goes after her. But will he have the courage to give her his heart and to make his secret wish come true?

Despite having been warned by her mother that love and desire are two very different things, Esa McCullum learns that lesson the hard way. After giving herself to a man she fancies herself in love with, the discovery that he loves another pushes her down a different path. Determined to put men and all their complications behind her, she devotes her life to being a healer--a choice that leads her to the most complicated man of all. Father Braigh MacAllister is a man who lives by his faith and his sword, but the archbishop has issued an ultimatum: to lay down his sword or lay down his frock. After being wounded in battle, he finds himself in Esa's capable--and tempting--hands. Now torn between two worlds, Braigh must make a decision that could change both their lives forever.