A Welsh princess on the run from King Edward’s army, Carys finds herself embroiled with pirates pillaging the western coastline of Scotland. She has escaped their clutches twice before. Has her luck at last run out?

Carys jerked her chin toward the approaching ship. “I would attempt flaming arrows, but the sail would not light for long with the spray kicking up as it is. And the angle is wrong for the ballista—most of the time, at least—to aim over their rail. The shields are well-arranged, and they take care to sail just out of our range.”

Birk rubbed his chin, startled to realize he took Carys’s observations—and Hanna’s—seriously. But both women made perfect sense and their comments helped him make up his mind.

From: The Highlander’s Welsh Bride By Cathy & DD MacRae

Blurb:  It was over. Prince Llywelyn was dead, his soldiers fleeing before King Edward’s army. Carys, a distant cousin to the prince, herself a princess of Wales, had picked up arms alongside her husband more than a year ago. Now homeless, her husband buried beneath the good Welsh soil, she seeks shelter in the north, far from the reach of Longshanks’s men. Carys and Wales would never be the same again.

Birk MacLean has been ordered to take a bride and produce an heir. He grows weary of the lasses paraded before him, women of delicate nature and selfish motives. He desires a wife strong enough to help lead one of the most powerful clans in Western Scotland.

One like the Welsh woman sitting in his dungeon, arrested for poaching MacLean deer. 

Can Birk convince Carys marriage to him is preferable to a hangman’s noose? And will the heard-headed Scot be worthy of a Princess of Wales?

From the towering Welsh mountains to the storm-swept Scottish coast comes a tale of betrayal and loss, deceit and passion. An epic tale of honor and the redeeming power of love.

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