The Widow and the Highlander

Christina MacKinnon is privately glad to be a widow. She wants nothing more to do with her late husband's clan, but she has siblings to support, and the estate that would provide for them has passed to her. Another man stands next in line to inherit it, and he presses her with advances and threats.

Lachlan Kincaid has just come home from the war. The MacKinnons betrayed his family and cost him his own inheritance, and he intends to see them answer for it. When he learns that Christina holds the estate, he sees a way to get what he is after.

The two come into each other's lives with separate aims. Over time each sees that neither goal can be reached alone. Working together means a route through real danger and a price that falls on both of them.

This is a clean Highland romance, meaning it keeps the love story free of explicit content. It is set in West Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1762. It is the first book in the Tales from the Highlands series by Martha Keyes. The tension comes from a threatened inheritance, old clan grievances and an alliance neither lead planned on.