The Chief's Reckless Daughter

Beitris MacIver was married off at fourteen, widowed at nineteen, and sent home at twenty with a lowland accent and four years of resentment. She takes one look at her father's riders and decides they have been stealing from him. Ewan Strachan has captained that band for six years on an unspoken rule: no chiefs' daughters, ever. The one he has been handed is arrogant, quick, and correct. She finds four years of missing coin. She traces it, wrong at first and then right, to a man her father trusts more than either of them. Telling Ewan is the hard part. Doing it badly, at a fair, with the man in question ten feet away, is worse. The chase goes down the coast road. What comes back names her father, and the hall will never be this quiet again.