When her father agrees to marry her to his friend's son, Bethan is appalled. Her betrothed is even younger than she is, a stranger-and Scottish. In the end it will take seven long years for her groom to finally send for her, and when he does, it will be too late. Her father is dead, she is no innocent maiden anymore, and determined to take her life into her own hands.

Cameron Campbell never aspired to be laird. Neither did he want to ride all the way to Wales to escort his nephew's betrothed home for their long overdue wedding. And he especially didn't plan to fall under the woman's spell.

But fall he will. How will he reconcile duty and desire? How will he convince his heart to heed what his reason is telling him? The Welsh beauty is not for him...