She is the Isles’ most coveted bride.
He is its most dangerous contender.
Lady Mhairi MacDonald, daughter of the King of the Isles and descendant of Robert the Bruce, has spent seven years at the Scottish court as a royal ward—the unspoken safeguard against her father’s rising favor. Caught in the web of a foreign court, she returns home to discover her hand has become the price of a fragile peace.
Promised to the victor of a grand tournament, Mhairi is a prize beyond compare, yet powerless to choose the man who will claim her. With her future no longer her own, she must decide whether to resist''or trust that God’s purposes are greater than her fears.
As warriors gather in Argyll, none stirs her dread more than Lachlan MacLean, the feared young chief of a disgraced clan. Rough-hewn and relentless, forged by hardship into a man Mhairi would never choose, Lachlan has staked everything—his clan’s survival—on winning her hand.
At first, they stand opposed: Mhairi recoils from the ruthless warrior determined to claim her, while Lachlan guards a heart shaped by loss. Yet as trials mount, both must reckon with the cost of pride, what mercy will require of them, and the call to trust what God is shaping between them may prove stronger than any kingdom.
Genre: Romance
He is its most dangerous contender.
Lady Mhairi MacDonald, daughter of the King of the Isles and descendant of Robert the Bruce, has spent seven years at the Scottish court as a royal ward—the unspoken safeguard against her father’s rising favor. Caught in the web of a foreign court, she returns home to discover her hand has become the price of a fragile peace.
Promised to the victor of a grand tournament, Mhairi is a prize beyond compare, yet powerless to choose the man who will claim her. With her future no longer her own, she must decide whether to resist''or trust that God’s purposes are greater than her fears.
As warriors gather in Argyll, none stirs her dread more than Lachlan MacLean, the feared young chief of a disgraced clan. Rough-hewn and relentless, forged by hardship into a man Mhairi would never choose, Lachlan has staked everything—his clan’s survival—on winning her hand.
At first, they stand opposed: Mhairi recoils from the ruthless warrior determined to claim her, while Lachlan guards a heart shaped by loss. Yet as trials mount, both must reckon with the cost of pride, what mercy will require of them, and the call to trust what God is shaping between them may prove stronger than any kingdom.
Genre: Romance