A Scottish beauty Lures the Laird to sin! Exchanging elegant Society balls for clan wars, Logan Rathmore has returned to Scotland as the new Laird of Ardvarrick. Peace is within his grasp when he meets musician Ailsa McInnis from a rival clan. Her stubborn pride and innocence fascinate him-but with her now under his protection he must do nothing to abuse her trust. The fragile peace is dependent on his being able to resist the forbidden temptation she presents...

This is a beautiful, moving tale from the bestselling author of the "Flashman Papers". To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish border was a land of blood and brutal violence, where raid and murder were commonplace, and her broad inheritance lay at the mercy of the outlaw riders and feuding tribes of England's last frontier. Beyond the law's protection, alone but for her house servants and an elderly priest, she could wait helpless in her lonely manor, or somehow find the means to fight the terror approaching from the northern night!

1663. While commanding a man-of-war in the Mediterranean, Matthew Quinton captures a Corsair pirate under the nose of a Maltese knight, the sinister Montnoir. But the 'pirate' is soon unmasked as O'Dwyer, a renegade Irishman with a fabulous yarn about a vast gold mine in the African desert.