Her Wedding to the Vicious Laird (Lairds’ Portraits #1)

Prologue

By the Edict of the Council of Elders, sealed this day at the Stones of Carn Liath, in the matter long open between the houses of Blythe and Cairn.

Let the feud end not in blood, but in blood shared. Let Olivia Arran of Clan Blythe be given in marriage to Ragnall Crawford, Laird of Clan Cairn, that the river run between two kin and not two foes.

The banns to be read. The match to be made. The peace to be kept, on pain of the Council’s judgment upon both houses.

So it is written. So let it be done.