Love and the Clans

The young and handsome Duke of Barenlock is twenty-seven and is beingconstantly pestered by his mother and his family to getmarried. They are not only frightened he will not produce an heirto the Dukedom, but the Castle, one of the most famous in Scotland, is in desperate need of repair. The Duke? s cousin Moira introduceshim to an attractive American girl, Mary-Lee, who is an immensely rich heiress. Moira tries to pressure him into proposing to Mary-Lee, but he is idealistic enough to hope that one day he will fall in lovewith someone who will love him not for his title but forhimself. To escape the pressure he goes for a walk by his river, which he shares with his Clans? arch-enemies, the Mac Fallins. Hesees a poacher in the shape of a young girl fishing his water and heis just about to order her off when she hooks a salmon and he cannotresist netting it for her. It is her first salmon and she is sodelighted that he finds it hard to tell her she has no right to it and he then discovers that she, Sheinna, is the daughter of the dreaded Chieftain of the Mac Fallins. They agree to meet the followingmorning at the same place and Sheinna tells him that her father isforcing her to marry Sir Ewen Kincard, who is over seventy with aterrible reputation. How the Duke and Sheinna find a way togetherto resolve their problems and bring their Clans together, and howafter severe danger they find real love for themselves is told in this exciting and stirring story of Scotland by BARBARA CARTLAND.