Claimed by the Grumpy Laird

Iseabail Munro was taken from the wrong village by the wrong men on the wrong night. She is not a hostage the laird of Macken Keep wants. Ruairidh Macken has one usable hand, a silent hall, and a reputation in the glen as a man who has not laughed in five years. He will keep her a month and return her, and that will be the end of it. She does not cooperate with this plan. She mends the nets. She feeds the hall. She reads the weather better than he does. She sits in the chair closest to the fire and refuses to be moved by a look alone. When the men who actually took her family come back, the laird — one-handed, stubborn, and quite unwilling to lose her — rides out to meet them. He comes back. She is waiting at the gate. And the whole glen will know before either of them says it out loud.