Returning home to the Scottish Highlands after battling the English,
Tayg Munro receives a hero's welcome--and a shocking ultimatum. In order
to take his place as heir to the chiefdom of Culrain, he must choose a
wife within the month or have one chosen for him. Angered by his
family's decree, Tayg delays the inevitable by volunteering for a
mission for the king that takes him deep into the Highlands. Preoccupied
by his marital obligation, the brooding warrior sets out with no hint of
the fateful encounter that awaits him...
Catriona MacLeod is known throughout the Highlands as the Shrew of
Assynt, thanks to her razor-sharp tongue and her unwillingness to yield
to her five brothers. When she's told that her eldest brother has
promised her hand in marriage to a man she has good reason to hate, she
flees into the Scottish wilderness, determined to seek the king's
intervention in her plight. When she reluctantly joins forces with a
handsome traveler, she cannot anticipate the treacherous plot that will
soon embroil them--nor the passion that will ignite between them.