The Bait of Blackwater Glen

Blackwater Glen has been under a wolf's peace for two hundred years, and everyone knows the rules. Everyone except Ailsa Mackinnon. She came up to the castle to refuse the laird's steward to his face. She found the laird chained in his own solar, counting down to the night the wolf gets out — and telling her, plainly, that only a woman who chooses to be its bait can set him free. Ailsa chooses. It costs her the glen's trust, the steward's goodwill, and a night in the woods she will never fully describe. It buys her Hamish between the chain-nights, and a wolf that knows her name. But the steward has made a deal with a redcoat captain, and the hundred years are almost up, and the thing that holds the curse does not intend to let go. A monster bait Scottish historical romance of cold burns, long nights, and a woman who walks into the woods on purpose.