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Scotland, 1479
Cameron Malcolm Stewart, Earl of Lennox, had
made his peace with destiny. It was not his fate to love as other
men.
Each of his politically arranged marriages had ended in
disaster. And though he had never touched a one of his wives, he had come to
believe that sharing his name would consign a woman to an early grave. So, on
the sunny spring day Cameron encounters a delightfully devious, bright-eyed lass
selling charmed stones in one of Stirling's alehouses, he tosses her a shilling,
thinking only to steal a kiss. But it is a kiss that will change his life
forever.
To care for her ailing father, the precocious Kate Ferguson has
resorted to swindling the drunkards of Stirling. But a chance meeting with a
handsome and seductively mysterious outlaw named Cameron ends with a kiss that
changes the course of her destiny.
But as dark times descend upon
Scotland, Kate is inadvertently caught in a deadly web of court intrigue spun by
the royal favorite, Thomas Cochrane. And as King James III falls prey to his
fear of the Black Arts, accusations of witchcraft and treachery abound. The fate
of Scotland hangs in the balance, and while Cameron vows to defy destiny itself
to hold Kate forever in his arms, he must unravel the plots of nobles and
commoners alike to protect the country that he loves.