When Angus Mc Keith knocks on the door, the lives of Fiona Windham andher niece and ward Mary-Rose are changed forever. Following therecent death of Fiona? s father, Lord Ian Rannock, and sister, Rosemary, the child has become heir-presumptive to her Scottish uncle, the Duke of Strathrannock, who has summoned Mary-Rose to his castlein Scotland. Reluctantly complying, but insisting that sheaccompany Mary-Rose, Fiona finds the Duke handsome, yet distant andcold. Ostracised by the Highland community after the mysteriousdisappearance of his wife, the Duchess, and a bitter feud with hisfather, the Duke has withdrawn from Society and seems an insensitive, even brutal man. Soon, though, as Fiona? s innocent beauty warms the Duke? s cold heart and love between them blossoms. But when sheattempts to solve the mystery that traps him in the past, Fiona findsherself in mortal danger at the hands of a woman possessed by aderanged desire for vengeance.
