Glendenning - New Release

Glendenning © 2024 Tessa Murran

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 he suspects has betrayed him, he encounters bonnie Rowenna MacCreadie. She stirs him with her red-gold hair and soulful brown eyes. Not only does Rowenna remind him of a woman who once tore his heart out, but she also 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 is drowning in her family’s misfortunes. Her brother and father are hopeless drunks who 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. Soon, she is falling for a complicated and untrusting man, one starved of affection. But when Jasper Glendenning thinks she has betrayed him, Rowenna discovers just how he earned his fearsome reputation.

Glendenning takes you on a sweeping adventure through hushed forests, forbidding castles and wild moorland as a heady mix of desire and possession grows into love. Escape to the lawless Scottish Marches with a wildly unsuitable and not altogether honourable Scot.

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Sneak Peek

Jasper provides an unwelcome escort home...

'Fool,’ spat Jasper, his face in hers. ‘Everyone heard you in there. All those men now know you are travelling back to Fallstairs alone. It is miles away, and you’ll be lucky to reach it before dark.’

‘Then I have no time to lose. Unhand me.’

‘No. I will escort you.’

‘I don’t need your help,’ cried Rowenna.

‘Take it all the same,’ he snarled. ‘There’s fell creatures about and wolves creep from the forest at night.’

‘The way I see it, there’s wolves here too.’

He laughed. ‘I suppose you mean me. How right you are, lass. Do you think I would tear at your flesh with my teeth? I would not cause you pain, lass, quite the opposite if you would only let me show you.'

What on earth did he mean?

‘Come, let us hurry, unless you long to be alone with me in the darkness,’ he said with that wicked smile again, implying all kinds of sin.

She squirmed to free herself, and Jasper jerked her towards him. ‘It was not a request, Rowenna.’

‘I will not go with you. I am not safe in your company.’

His eyes flicked downwards to her mouth. ‘On that, we can agree.’