Scottish Fires

Elen Burnard is determined to reclaim the land that was stolen from her family one hundred years ago by the Forrests of Rancoff Castle. When her sister is kidnapped by her adversary's brother, Lady Dunblane leads her men in heated pursuit-bringing home as her prize the Lord of Rancoff himself. Now all that remains is to barter Forrest Munro's life for her sister's safe return. But first she must overcome her unexpected emotions. Desire stirs Elen's virgin heart as she feels the heat of him. She dreams about him, his sweet touch, his embrace, his tender kiss. Soon it is their feelings for each other, more than his shackles, which keeps Forrest Munro at Dunblane. Having long renounced the longings of love, Elen desires him more than anything and wants what she has never had. Fearing she is playing with fire, Elen boldly welcomes his advances while carefully guarding her heart. How can she surrender her treasured freedom, as well as her family's future, to her enemy? And even as she struggles to reconcile her duty with the longings of her soul, clansmen seek to destroy her fragile happiness for their own gain... no matter what the cost. Like vultures they circle around this man and this woman who are playing with fire. If they want to survive, Elen and Munro must return to their duty and protect what they have, together, or risk losing their very lives.

Lady Anne, the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce, patiently awaits her wedding day at Rancoff Castle when Tor Henneson, Rancoff's bastard son raised by his Vik mother in the north, storms the castle moat and breaks down the gate, demanding his due. What he wants from the father who cast him aside is coin rather than comfort-something Rancoff has always denied him. Rancoff puts him off and rejects his demands and while days turn to weeks and then months, the towering young man opens his eyes to his long-denied Highlander heritage-and also beholds the beautiful, betrothed Anne, finding can no longer cast the Highlander part of him aside... nor his keep his vow to hate his father Rancoff. When Tor claims Anne as his own, trouble ensues as their love sets off dark intrigue and deadly treachery. Tor and Anne are draw him into a desperate fight to save their love as well as Tor's birthright. As their enemies close in, Anne is in great danger and Tor must do everything in his power to save the woman he loves.

A tempestuous romantic tale set in seventeenth-century Scotland about forbidden love and the indomitable strength of the human spirit as Kara, a medieval Scottish Lady, must marry Henry, only a boy. Trapped by fate, Kara fears what their union will be like-especially its consummation. But luckily, much to her relief, what her "husband" needs a mother's care and not a lover's touch. Yet nearby is an older man, her husband's trusted older half-brother, who longs for Kara with a true heart. Ian's deep attraction to Kara grows into scandalous desire and as he struggles to put it aside, his flaming passion only grows stronger, a passion which puts him, Kara, and his half-brother Henry in ever-increasing danger. As forces around the throne and enemies who stand allied against the Mckie clan and against Kara in particular start to do whatever it will take to take the throne away from Henry, Kara and Ian must protect him and do whatever it takes to keep the boy-king safe. Only Ian's undying devotion to her and to the young king gives Kara the strength to face what she has to face, a future fraught with deadly intrigue, a future that may destroy everything she holds dear and everyone she loves.