A quiet, flame-haired beauty with secrets of her own...Shes nothing he expected and everything he really needs Lady Aila Graham is destined for the convent, until her brothers death leaves her an heiress. Soon she is caught between hastily arranged marriage with a Highland warrior, the Abbots insistence that she take her vows, the Scottish Laird who kidnaps her, and the traitor from within who betrays them all. Padyn MacLaren, a battled-hardened knight, returns home to the Highlands after years of fighting the English in France. MacLaren bears the physical scars of battle, but it is the deeper wounds of betrayal that have rocked his faith. Arriving with only a band of war-weary knights, MacLaren finds his land pillaged and his clan scattered. Determined to restore his clan, he sees Ailas fortune as the answer to his problems.
