In the wake of Culloden’s crushing defeat, the Highlands lie scarred, every glen steeped in danger. Cast out from her clan for her late husband’s betrayal, a young widow drifts alone with nothing but shame and memories. Then she finds the laird’s wounded son a man she once knew only by rumor and she cannot leave him to die. Caring for him binds her fate to his, pulling her into a fight neither can escape.
Their path soon crosses an English deserter, a man marked by war and carrying secrets of her husband’s last days. His guarded kindness unsettles her, raising questions she never dared ask about loyalty, betrayal, and whether life beyond bloodshed is possible.
As soldiers sweep the Highlands, the three are driven together, bound by danger and reluctant trust. Step by step, tension sharpens into desire, even as the threat closing in grows impossible to ignore.
In a land torn by vengeance, can love take root in ruin, or will the past destroy them all?
