Alec Mackenzie's Art of Seduction

Alec Mackenzie earns a living in exile as an art instructor, a cover for a search across several countries for his missing brother. Lady Celia, an Englishwoman who refuses to marry the gentlemen her overbearing mother selects, is sent to the mysterious Scottish recluse for drawing lessons.

Celia is intrigued by the man calling himself Mr. Finn. He is a Scot, she deduces, but surely not one of the Highlanders who rose against the king, or she would never be permitted near him. As her curiosity guides her, she uncovers his name, his title, and the fact that he was indeed at Culloden.

She sees his loneliness, his sense of loss, and his tenderness toward his daughter, and she learns he has left the safety of France because he believes she is the key to finding his missing brother.

But Celia unravels too many secrets, putting her life, Alec's, and her heart in danger. A self-contained Jacobite-era romance in Jennifer Ashley's Mackenzies & McBrides series.