Blood of the Thistle (Far From Home #14)

Anastasia Ellis has spent her life being exactly the sort of person everyone depends upon.

She arrives early, keeps her promises, remembers birthdays, and spends her days teaching third graders that kindness matters.

At twenty-eight, her life is comfortable, predictable, and entirely ordinary. A long-awaited vacation to England is supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime.

Instead, Anastasia finds herself hopelessly lost in a world seven hundred years removed from her own.

After three months of English captivity, Highland laird Bram MacCailin finally wins the freedom he’d been willing to die for.

Tortured for information he refused to give and condemned to hang in York, he escapes with little more than the clothes on his back, an iron shackle still locked around his wrist, and one desperate purpose—to expose the man whose betrayal led his army into an ambush and branded Bram a traitor.

When Bram encounters a bewildered young woman alone in an English forest, every instinct tells him to keep running.

She’s a stranger, a burden, and almost certainly the difference between freedom and the gallows. He intends to leave her where she stands.

Instead, an instinct he cannot explain compels him to take her with him.

Forced together on a dangerous journey north, Bram and Anastasia have little reason to trust one another and even less reason to believe the other’s impossible claims.

Yet somewhere between encounters with the enemy, shared dangers, and a growing attraction neither intends to acknowledge, the stranger each regarded with suspicion becomes the one person neither can imagine leaving behind.

But Bram is returning to a war that has already cost him nearly everything, while Anastasia belongs to a world seven centuries beyond his reach.

And as the distance between them disappears, an impossible question remains: What happens when the forces that brought them together threaten to tear them apart again?