As alliances shift and enemies draw closer, soon everything they hold dear is at risk: their lands, their love, and their very lives. Yet the more time Evelyn spends with John and his boys, the fonder she grows of their little family, and the last thing she wants to do is put them in danger. Evelyn has no desire to wed the rugged Scottish earl, but at least shell be able to continue her work as a spy-as long as her husband never finds out. But theres more behind the English lasss calm demeanor than shes letting on, including a smoldering allure not even John can ignore. And beautiful Lady Evelyn Pierrepont would be the perfect match. With two young sons to care for and a large estate to run, John Erskine, the widowed Earl of Mar, needs to remarry as quickly as possible. Smith meets Outlander in this action-packed Scottish romance where a marriage of convenience leads to secrets that could be deadly.
Magnetic, sexy romance is at the heart of this novel, made complete with a cast of richly depicted characters, authentic historical detail, and a fast-moving plot. Audrey begins to feel she must convince Reid that there is a future for them. When Reid, his men, and Audrey must travel swiftly to Scotland to elude Wagner Tupps, an evil man claiming to be the heir to Kennet’s estate, and Reid’s longtime enemy Captain Fry, Audrey and Reid spend more time alone together, and passion sizzles. As Reid begins to search for suitors for Audrey, the mutual attraction between them builds, but Reid believes that it would be irresponsible of him to act on it. But Reid is stunned when he learns that Kennet’s daughter, Audrey, is 19 years old, and she is less than thrilled that Reid is her new guardian.
Reid MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, fulfills the last wishes of Nicholas Kennet, a passenger on his ship who died when the ship was wrecked by cannonball fire: with his dying breath, Kennet asked Reid to take care of his young daughter. In Jarecki’s zingy third 18th-century Lords of the Highlands installment (after The Highland Commander), an English heiress falls hard for her new guardian, a Scottish earl.
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