Highland warrior Gavin Mackinnon has found the woman that he wants to spend the rest of his life with - now he is forced by the evils of war to leave her behind.English beauty Emma Abernathy is high-spirited and feisty - the perfect match for Gavin. Together they discover a love so deep that it threatens to consume them.With no time for a proper wedding, Gavin seeks to protect Emma with the safety of his name, also giving her his heart to safe-keep. They are handfasted, bound together in marriage for a year and a day. Gavin and Emma share one precious night together before he leaves for war - losing themselves in the depths of their passion and savoring the joy of their love.Gavin vows to fight with every shred of his being to return safely home to Emma.Will the strength of Emma's love be enough to bring her husband back from the horrors of war?

Fiery and strong-willed Anna Stanton boldly accepts a betrothal to Lieutenant Jonathan Arbor, a ruthless man who agrees to pay her ruined family handsomely if she leaves England and joins him in the New World.Having lost everything in the failed Scottish rising against the English Crown, devilishly handsome Rowan Murray finds himself shackled with his brothers Quinn and Malcolm and transported to the New World as an indentured prisoner. A stroke of luck causes the Mary Catherine to sink, and the Murray brothers find themselves shipwrecked on the shores of a new and dangerous land.When Rowan rescues the mysterious Anna Stanton from the aftermath of the shipwreck, he finds himself torn between loyalty to his brothers and an unexpected attraction that he feels towards the English lass. The Murray brothers endeavor to escort Anna into the care of her betrothed, and the undeniable passion between Anna and Rowan blooms, binding them with forbidden desires. Despite Anna’s duty to marry Jonathan, but she finds herself falling deeply and irrevocable in love with Rowan – a man that she knows that she can never have.When they finally succumb to their desires, Rowan and Anna embark on a passionate, forbidden love affair, each aware that their love cannot survive their duties to their families. Rowan vows to move heaven and Earth to defy Anna’s fate and reclaim her from jealous and vengeful Jonathan Arbor. How can he force himself to walk away from the only woman that he has ever loved?