The Forbidden Laird's Promised Bride

Donaldina MacNicol is burying her brother when her clan begins to fracture and rivals press in to strip her of power.

An enemy laird, Roy MacIver, arrives with an eight-year-old royal decree and claims her hand before another man can seize her fate.

He came for a political bride, not a woman whose fire makes duty feel like sin.

Her defiance wears down his restraint, and every forbidden touch makes distance feel like punishment.

A marriage between them could end the bloodshed, or set the Highlands alight.