The Seduction of Elliot McBride

Juliana St. John has been brought up to behave correctly, and she has waited through a long engagement to marry. On her wedding day her groom abandons her at the altar. She runs from the jeering crowd and comes upon Elliot McBride, a tall, passionate Scot she loved years ago.

Elliot's teasing gives her an idea. She asks him to rescue her from an uncertain future by marrying her.

Elliot has come back to Scotland after a brutal imprisonment, now very rich and badly tormented. His manor in the Highlands is half in ruins. Some people consider him irredeemably mad.

Juliana sets about restoring the house, and at the same time tries to mend the heart of the man she has married. This is a historical romance built on a marriage of convenience between former sweethearts. The question it turns on is whether her beauty and spirit can win her a second chance at love with a man who has been so deeply hurt.