Mairi MacGregor hoped to never again lay eyes on Connor Grant. She was ten and one when he promised her he would one day build them a home in her beloved Highlands, spending their lives together. But she was ten and seven and foolishly weeping when he rode out of the Highlands to join the English Royal Army. She wouldnโt be so foolish as to waste tears on him now. Devoted to her beloved Scotland, Mairi believes Connor is a turncoat and a liar, and thereโs nothing she despises more than that. No one but her brother, Colin, knows that Mairi is part of a rebel militia, quietly gaining intelligence and exposing traitors to Scotland using whatever means necessary. Now, at King Jamesโ court in England, sheโs determined to keep her missions secret and keep the one man with the power to bring her to her knees at armโs lengthโher heart be damned.
Royal Captain Connor Grant never wanted to leave Mairi, but heโd had no choice. It was his duty to serve his familyโs name, and no matter how he asked her to wait, his lass had refused. Heโs never stopped loving her, though, and seeing the beautiful, passionate, yet mysterious woman sheโs become at court has taken his breath away. But King James has powerful enemies, and Connor isnโt deaf to the whispers of treachery in court. So when the king disappears in the middle of the night with Mairiโs brother as his only protection, Connor suspects Mairi is involved. As one secret after another unravels about the kingโs whereabouts and the whispers of a coup grow ever stronger, can Connor trust the one woman who still has his heart?
Paula Quinn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling multi-published author of Scottish historical and paranormal romance. Paula also writes fantasy romance under her pen name of Genevra Thorne. She lives in New York with her three beautiful children, six over-protective chihuahuas, and three adorable parrots. She loves to read romance and science fiction and has been writing since she was eleven. To date, four of her books have garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. She has been nominated as Historical Storyteller of the Year by RT Book Reviews, and all the books in her MacGregor and Children of the Mist series have received Top Picks from RT Book Reviews. Her work has also been honored as Amazon's Best of the Year in Romance, and in 2008 she won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence for Historical Romance. Her faerie series has been nominated for the 2017 Rone Award and has won the Sceal Award of Excellence from Books and Benches, as well as taking 2nd place for the 2016 Best Series award from the Paranormal Romance Guild. To date, two of her dragon-shifter romances have garnered Crowned Heart reviews from Ind'tale Magazine and Top Picks from Night Owl Reviews and The Romance Reviews.
Carrington MacDuffie is a singer and recording artist, who first began reading audiobooks featuring poetry. The recipient of multiple Earphones Awards and six Audi nominations, she has read novels by Jackie Collins, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Anna Quindlenโs Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Christopher Buckleyโs Florence of Arabia. She also co-narrated Transgressions: Death's Betrayal by Macmillan Audio. MacDuffe has published her own audiobook, Many Things Invisible, featuring poetry integrated with music and sound.