When a lady is in danger, where better to hide than in a castle full of Highlanders?

Zarabeth of Nvengaria flees to Scotland when her life is endangered by treachery in her homeland, revealed by her ability to read thoughts. Her cousin Prince Damien knows there's no safer place to send her than to his old friend Egan MacDonald and his castle in the remote Scottish Highlands.

Egan has loved Zarabeth since the day she kissed him in her father's house five years ago, and now he vows he'll protect her from all danger—including his own spiking need for her.

Zarabeth finds her interest in life renewed in the castle which is supposedly under a curse, where Egan's cousins, sister, nephews, and neighbors swarm at will, returning joy and laughter to Zarabeth's world. Zarabeth falls in love with Castle MacDonald and its inhabitants and never wants to leave—curse or no curse.

But there is one person whose thoughts she's never been able to read—Egan MacDonald, the Mad Highlander. The man she'd give her heart to, and her entire life if he wished it ...