Laird Jamie MacQueen agrees to a marriage of convenience, but Nicolette refuses, for she has other promises to keep. Her fiery spirit and tantalizing beauty tempts Jamie, and he pursues her with a tenderness and passion that she can’t resist, until finally Nicolette follows her heart. 

Nicolette struggles against the forced betrothal, but finds Jamie so powerfully compelling, so strong in spirit and beautiful in body, that she cannot dismiss her attraction. When she can no longer deny her feelings, and finally surrenders, she is ripped away in a twisted, savage plot.

Will their love survive her Uncle’s demented need for revenge, or will the demons from Jamie’s past tear them apart?