Taken hostage in France, Sir Nicholas Whitfield came home to England and found he has lost everything. 1- His title is gone. 2- His lands have been taken. 3- His only remaining family, his niece, has been kidnapped. So the English knight travels north into the dangerous Highlands to find his niece. He did not expect to find her. A Highlander. Ava Fitzpatrick.
There has never been a woman like Ava. She is the bastard daughter of the Laird of Clan Blair. A proud, volatile, dangerous, and infamous clan. Ava is every inch a member of Clan Blair. She fights. She raids. And after Nicholas rescues, she decides to help him on his mad quest into the Highlands to find his lost niece. Nicholas realizes that he is falling in love with the girl who guides him. Ava finds passion in Nicholas's arms, and she knows that nothing will ever be the same. Being the bastard daughter, Ava has fought her entire life for acceptance, but now she wonders what that really means. Nicholas is everything she has ever wanted, but what does her clan want? What does Nicholas want? And can they overcome the dangers of the Highlands?