When your kidnapper forces you to marry him…
Cullen Macaulay has known more damnation than redemption. As an unwanted bastard son, Cullen Macaulay has been left to run wild and indulge his worst impulses. When he is summoned from exile, he finds his father and half-brother on the wrong side of a fight for supremacy in the West March, scrabbling for an alliance to ensure their survival.
Soon, Cullen is dragged into their plot to force a kidnapped lass into marriage by taking her virtue. But she is as wild and wilful as Cullen, and how can he consummate his marriage to an unwilling bride? He may be a bastard, but he is not such a bastard as to force a woman to have him, so there has to be another way - if she doesn’t stick a knife in him first!
Lowri Strachan is a prisoner, and it’s all her own fault for trying to steal Laird Griffin Macaulay’s cattle. To gain her freedom, the laird demands she succumb to a forced marriage to his son - a rough lout, whose grey eyes hold a quiet menace. He seems to see into her reckless, withered soul and find her wanting. Swept far from home, alone and friendless, Lowri must turn to her new husband for protection. But he’s no happier about being married than she is, and how can she use her cunning to manipulate him and gain her freedom, when his touch awakens a fierce passion she is powerless to resist?
As Lowri tries to adjust to her new life and reduced circumstances, a handsome rival to her unwanted husband fixes his covetous eye on her. This ruthless man harbours a lust for fiery, dark-haired lasses and may just be her route to freedom. But that means she will have to set him on a collision course with savage Cullen Macaulay.
Macaulay sweeps you from the rolling glens of the Scottish Marches, across the sea to the misty, rugged cliffs of Ireland. Prepare to navigate the waters of lust, greed, ambition and betrayal.
Macaulay can be read as a stand-alone romance or enjoyed as part of the Hostage Brides Series. For more, check out my website, www.tessamurran.com or find me on X @tessamurran.
Genre: Historical Romance
Cullen Macaulay has known more damnation than redemption. As an unwanted bastard son, Cullen Macaulay has been left to run wild and indulge his worst impulses. When he is summoned from exile, he finds his father and half-brother on the wrong side of a fight for supremacy in the West March, scrabbling for an alliance to ensure their survival.
Soon, Cullen is dragged into their plot to force a kidnapped lass into marriage by taking her virtue. But she is as wild and wilful as Cullen, and how can he consummate his marriage to an unwilling bride? He may be a bastard, but he is not such a bastard as to force a woman to have him, so there has to be another way - if she doesn’t stick a knife in him first!
Lowri Strachan is a prisoner, and it’s all her own fault for trying to steal Laird Griffin Macaulay’s cattle. To gain her freedom, the laird demands she succumb to a forced marriage to his son - a rough lout, whose grey eyes hold a quiet menace. He seems to see into her reckless, withered soul and find her wanting. Swept far from home, alone and friendless, Lowri must turn to her new husband for protection. But he’s no happier about being married than she is, and how can she use her cunning to manipulate him and gain her freedom, when his touch awakens a fierce passion she is powerless to resist?
As Lowri tries to adjust to her new life and reduced circumstances, a handsome rival to her unwanted husband fixes his covetous eye on her. This ruthless man harbours a lust for fiery, dark-haired lasses and may just be her route to freedom. But that means she will have to set him on a collision course with savage Cullen Macaulay.
Macaulay sweeps you from the rolling glens of the Scottish Marches, across the sea to the misty, rugged cliffs of Ireland. Prepare to navigate the waters of lust, greed, ambition and betrayal.
Macaulay can be read as a stand-alone romance or enjoyed as part of the Hostage Brides Series. For more, check out my website, www.tessamurran.com or find me on X @tessamurran.
Genre: Historical Romance