New York Times bestselling author Shannon Drake

combines grand passion and

spellbinding adventure in a shimmering epic of

Scotland s tempestuous past...

Bold and beautiful. Lady Eleanor of Clarin-sole

heir to her ancestral lands-chooses to marry an

aging French noble rather than Edward I s choice

of a brutal knight. To preserve Clarin and defeat the

rebellious Scots who killed her father, she would

gladly give her hand to the devil himself.

But when the fiery Highland outlaw Brendan

Graham takes her hostage, he also inspires her

deepest desires. Now, as Eleanor is swept away from

her beloved land and into an arranged marriage,

she will be surrounded by treachery and accused of

murder. Only one man can rescue her from the tor-

ture and death that lie ahead. The man who should

remain her greatest enemy...yet holds her heart-and

her very life-in his hands.