Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine, whose remote connection with the reigning line of Pianura did not preserve him from wearing torn clothes and eating black bread and beans out of an earthen bowl on the kitchen doorstep. "Go ask your mother for new clothes!" Filomena would snap at him, when his toes came through his shoes and the rents in his jacket-sleeves had spread beyond

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Uncovering a governmental conspiracy to frame a friend for murder puts David Balfour on the run and striving to protect the woman he's come to love. Released with the title David Balfour when originally released in the United States, Catriona is Robert Louis Stevenson's follow-up to Kidnapped. David Balfour, hero of both books, is made a target by his willingness to testify in favor of a friend falsely accused of murder. His stubborn sense of justice...

From the bestselling author of the Stolen Bride Series comes a brand new and exciting family saga! For fans of Scottish historical romance, the Sutherland Legacy propels you into the Highlands with tales of daring adventure, irresistible heroes and passion! An injured warrior, and the headstrong lady who won't let him fall... Betrothed to a princess until she declares his battle wound has incapacitated him as a man, Sir Niall Oliphant is glad to...

Bagpipe-playing bluestocking Ruari MacDonald must protect the standing stone circles and ancient Picti-carved pillars around Callanish Castle-but the laird plans to lease his croft lands and force her to marry a sinister English earl. After years abroad in the East India Company, Lochaber Gordon returns to Scotland to wreak long-awaited vengeance on his father, the Duke of Aberdeen. First stop, the Outer Hebrides, to create a world-class whisky distillery...

Lady Hazel Fletcher's father, fiercely opposed to Scottish independence, means to use her as a weapon in his scheme to instigate trouble between England and Scotland. She is pregnant by her lover, a neighboring nobleman, but her father blames a Scotsman he has deliberately framed. Cormac MacLeod, realizing the trick when he's accused of fathering the child of a woman he's never met, refuses to marry her and is thrown into the dungeon. Allied against...

William MacAlpin fights fires as a smoke jumper in rugged Montana backcountry. This reckless endeavor masks an even more dangerous calling-he's from a dying breed sworn to protect the earth. When he learns a ruthless killer has escaped into sixteenth-century England determined to change history, he vows to bring the renegade back, dead or alive. Isabel de Pinze, gifted painter and a servant in Queen Mary's court, knows nothing of the battle between...

Frances Housden returns with her best—selling, award—winning Chieftain series in this short novel about a young woman with a strong will and a sharp mind, and the man who has nothing to offer but his heart. Maggie McArthur never thought she would meet her fate in a clash of swords. She may wield a sword more skilfully than a needle, but it was more luck than proficiency that led to her piercing Dhugal Robertson through the shoulder. Frightened...

Tall, beautiful and slender, she dressed like a boy and fought like a warrior and won Laird Macgregor's interest in a single moment. Jillian was fighting to protect her father and save her heritage — could she trust a Highlander to help her?

Adrian de Soules, exiled Templar in clandestine service to Robert the Bruce, finds himself drawn to flame-haired Kendra Claremont-niece of the Earl of Pembroke and granddaughter of an arch-enemy of the secret Templar Brotherhood-and knows she's trouble. Finding she hates Templars, blaming them for her father's suicide, increases the incentive to keep his distance. But, like a sailor at sea, he hears the ancient siren call. Kendra is intrigued by Adrian,...

Set in the 16th century when Elizabeth I ruled England, and her cousin, Mary, ruled Scotland, The Monastery depicts the religious tension and restlessness that existed along Scotland's border. While Elizabeth ruled with her Anglican beliefs, Mary was a Catholic, and with much of their culture intermixing, this sowed unrest. While this feud between the Catholic church and the Anglican heretical church rages on, two families, the Glendenning's and the...