The Highlander's Stolen Love

Book excerpt: When Duncan Maclean and Caitriona Menzies first set eyes on each other at a Highland wedding, they fell instantly in love. “I am yours,” Caitriona promised him that night. “Yours and no other’s.” But Caitriona is not in charge of her own fate, and when her parents tell her that Duncan—a younger son with no title or lands—has been so badly injured in battle that he can be a husband to no woman, she finds herself given to Cormag MacPherson in marriage. Cormag, however, is like the devil incarnate. He abuses his wife and servants, and Caitriona knows that if she doesn’t escape, she and her maid Jessie are doomed. Fate takes a hand when power-hungry Cormag kidnaps the wife of Robert Stewart, and Duncan, still recovering from his war injuries, learns where his sister by marriage is being kept prisoner. He is stunned to discover that Una is not Cormag MacPherson’s only prisoner: Caitriona needs him desperately, before it is too late. Fighting against almost insurmountable odds, Duncan sets out to rescue his stolen love. Hurting from his wounds, tortured by Cormag, he has to face the battle of his life.