Laird Robert McPhee doesn’t like visitors. Especially not when they’re moneylenders demanding payment, or the neighbouring clans trying to marry off their daughters. But although he prefers the solitude of his estate to entertaining guests, it’s becoming harder to ignore the demands of the outside world. Until a chance encounter in the woods changes everything.

Isobel MacKay is downright sick of pompous lairds, thinking they can take what they want. When one of them goes too far, and she’s forced to defend both her honour and her life, Isobel flees to the safety of the south. And when she crashes into Robert’s estate, she gets a glimpse of a world neither of them could ever imagine. But lairds don’t fall in love with wild women of the forest, and certainly not those who are more comfortable with swords than sceptres. Unless there’s a way for Robert to tame Isobel’s heart, once and for all?