New! Macaulay - Book Three

HOSTAGE BRIDES SERIES BOOK 3

When your kidnapper forces you to marry him...

Cullen Macaulay has known more damnation than redemption. As an unwanted bastard son, he has as been left to run wild and indulge his worst impulses. Summoned from exile, he finds his father and half-brother on the wrong side of a fight for supremacy in the West March, scrabbling for an alliance to ensure their survival. 

Soon, Cullen is dragged into their plot to force a kidnapped lass into marriage by taking her virtue. But she is as wild and wilful as Cullen, and how can he consummate his marriage to an unwilling bride? He may be a bastard, but he is not such a bastard as to force a woman to have him, so there has to be another way - if she doesn’t stick a knife in him first!

Lowri Strachan is a prisoner, and it’s all her own fault for trying to steal Laird Griffin Macaulay’s cattle. To gain freedom, the laird demands that she succumb to a forced marriage to his son - a rough lout, whose grey eyes hold a quiet menace. He seems to see into her reckless, withered soul and find her wanting. Swept far from home, alone and friendless, Lowri must turn to her new husband for protection. But he’s no happier about being married than she is, and how can she use her cunning to manipulate him and gain her freedom, when his touch awakens a fierce passion she is powerless to resist? 

As Lowri tries to adjust to her new life and reduced circumstances, a handsome rival to her unwanted husband fixes his covetous eye on her. This ruthless man harbours a lust for fiery, dark-haired lasses and may just be her route to freedom. But that means she will have to set him on a collision course with savage Cullen Macaulay. 

Macaulay sweeps the reader from the rolling glens of the Scottish Marches, across the sea to the misty, rugged cliffs of Ireland. Prepare to navigate the waters of lust, greed, ambition and betrayal.  

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HOSTAGE BRIDES SERIES BOOK 2

When your rescuer becomes your jailor...

Peyton Strachan wants a simple life – to fight for his clan, protect its people and marry a lass who has caught his eye. But when the laird of Clan Strachan is killed, Peyton has to take his place,  and not everyone is happy about it. His clansmen think him an upstart, rivals circle and the lass he wants may not want him. 

Living on a knife edge, Peyton rides out one day and encounters a lass in danger. She may be the most alluring woman he has ever met, but she is also spoiled, selfish and maddeningly defiant. And he can't cut her loose because she knows something that could send him to the gallows, bringing Clan Strachan down with him.

Cecily MacCreadie has a secret – a handsome, dark-haired secret she has been meeting out on the moors unbeknownst to her father, who is arranging her marriage to an old lecher. When her plan to elope comes to a bloody and shocking end, Cecily ends up in the hands of a rough brute, Peyton Strachan. And he is no chivalrous rescuer. Instead, he imprisons her at his hideous stronghold. 

The last thing Peyton needs is Cecily MacCreadie, whose beauty is only eclipsed by her ability to get his blood up at every turn. How can he chart an honorable course in the face of raging desire, vicious enemies and insurmountable odds, and will he turn to his dark side to get what he wants?

As the West March clans bicker and King James’ ambition sends a shadow across the Scottish Borders, an evil eye fixes on Peyton, bent on bloody revenge. 

Prepare to be carried off and imprisoned at the mercy of a rough, wild-eyed Highlander whose rampant masculinity becomes impossible to resist in this forced marriage Scottish romance.

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HOSTAGE BRIDES SERIES BOOK 1

When he takes you in payment of a debt...

Love is weakness to brooding Jasper Glendenning. He has been burned in its fire and vows never to succumb again. When his unloving wife dies in childbirth, he looks for another hard-headed marriage to bolster his power as he faces evil forces stalking the West March. An old enemy with scores to settle is set on murderous vengeance. 

When he goes to collect a debt from a man who has betrayed him, he encounters bonnie Rowenna MacCreadie. She stirs him with her red-gold hair and soulful brown eyes.  Rowenna reminds him of a woman who once tore his heart out, but she wants nothing to do with him. There is only one way Jasper can have her – take her as payment for her brother’s debt and treachery. 

Rowenna MacCreadie's brother and father have let the family estate fall into ruin. They pin their hopes on arranging an advantageous marriage for her sister Cecily. Then, one day, Cecily goes missing, and fearsome Jasper Glendenning comes calling, threatening to call in a debt. For some reason, he cannot stop staring at her.

Soon, Rowenna finds herself under the power of an angry stranger who is by turns fierce and tender. She vows to survive within the poisonous Glendenning family, use Jasper’s power to find her sister and bear his bed as best she can. But her captor has bedroom skills she can only dream of, and he awakens a fire in her that burns her up. But when Jasper Glendenning thinks she has betrayed him, Rowenna discovers just how he earned his fearsome reputation. 

Glendenning sweeps you through hushed forests, forbidding castles and wild moorland as a desire and possession grow into love. 

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