Cathy MacRae is the author of today’s Medieval Mondays excerpt from The Highlander’s Welsh Bride.”

“I did not see the need. I asked nothing from the clan—neither food nor lodging. Or protection.”

The man gave a short nod. “Tell me how ye came here. There was rumor of a shipwreck, yet no survivors were found.”

Carys’s eyes narrowed. “You must not have searched very hard,” she scoffed, though she knew she’d covered her tracks well. Once away from the foundered Seabhag, she’d not returned, nor allowed Tully to do so. Precisely because of the fear someone would stumble upon the wreckage. She had not wanted to risk anyone discovering a well-worn path to the cave they called home.

Where to find more Medieval Monday action.

• Catch last week’s excerpt on Judith Sterling’s Blog.
• Follow Cathy to next week’s excerpt on Barbara Bettis’ Blog.
• Were you looking for the next segment of my novel The Herald’s Heart? You may find that today at Cathy MacRae’s Blog.

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 It was time..

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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