The Highland Laird's Ledger

Sorcha Dunbar can read. In the Highlands, that makes her dangerous. Dragged to Kilcraig Castle to audit the laird's books, she finds a theft inside three days — and the thief is the man holding the keys. Laird Tavish MacAllan is twice her age, colder than the loch, and richer than any man for fifty miles. He offers Sorcha a bargain: run his ledger, and he'll keep her village off the MacKay raiding map. She stays for the books. She stays longer for the way he looks at her over candlelight. But when the MacKays burn her village anyway, Sorcha stops trusting promises and starts making her own. She steals the laird's silver, rides north, and offers herself to his enemy's heir to buy her people peace. Tavish MacAllan follows with no army, no threats, and one written confession that will cost him his steward and half his lands. He doesn't come to stop the wedding. He comes to let Sorcha choose.