HARD-HEARTED HIGHLANDER Highland Grooms, Book 3

The wonderful narrator Derek Perkins brings this story to life with vivid portrayals of all the tortured players in an arranged betrothal gone awry. To save his family's lands after the Scots' bitter defeat at Culloden, Rabbie MacKenzie must marry an English bride. Rabbie has been deeply depressed since the brutal death of his fiancée, and he's in no mood to court an English lass. Young and naïve Aveline is bartered into marriage--and is way out of her depth. It falls to her former governess and companion, Bernadette, to try to help these two to get along. But Rabbie, who wants nothing more than to join his beloved in death, is increasingly intrigued by the companion with a secret past, and the feeling is mutual. L.C.L. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2017]