Annabel Henderson's life has fallen apart yet again, worse this time than before. She lost her beloved younger brother, then her mother a year ago, and now her father. His dying words talk of his regrets; warn her of someone or something that he was unable to fully explain. Confused, grieving, she is left alone in the Scottish Highlands to deal with her father's body and wondering how she can continue on with her family's tinker trade traveling from village to village. She must do it, for it is the only life she knows. In her heart, though, she yearns for a man to love her and to help her with the trade. Instead her first encounter is with the famed Great Scottish Devil returning to his home of Urquhart. The Devil is more annoying and demanding than he is handsome. How dare he think to take charge of her life!
Brodie Durward isn't sure he can deal with another problem in his life. He'd barely survived being taken prisoner and seriously wounded in the final battle of the Crusades, left with the loss of his memories. Still struggling with that, he had to go to England and save his sister Maggie from being hung. All he wants now is to return to his family's holding of the Castle Urquhart. He hopes the once familiar surroundings and being around his clan will help him completely heal and regain his memories. Then he and his men run across a young lad apparently trying to steal the valuables off a dead man. Such a travesty can't be tolerated!
But the "lad" isn't a boy at all. The supposed bandit is a tiny sprite of a woman, far too pleasing to the eye for his comfort, and furious at having been called a thief. And then she tries to refuse to travel with him under his protection, claiming she doesn't need it, doesn't wish to go in that direction. He has no patience for her foolishness. She will go with him!
This story is a companion novel of "Maggie Mine" by Starla Kaye about Maggie's troubled older brother, but it is also a book that stands on its own!
NOTE: This story contains sex and domestic discipline (adult male spanking an adult woman), so if such material can or may offend you, please don't buy this book.
Book Length: 12 chapters / 63,738 words
