Christine Calhoun is a violin prodigy, seventeen years old, with the perfect group of friends and the best parents a teen could ask for. But when her father died in January of 2015, her mother was devastated. And just when things could get any worse, Melissa meets Alan, a laird from the Scottish Highlands. She's shipped out of Florida to live in Scotland, her mother saying that this was a new beginning for their family, but all Christine wants is to go back. However, shortly after finally settling in, her mother falls ill. The only condition to bring her back is being time warped to the past or to live out her days as Alan's servant.
Unwilling to let herself live with Alan, Christine is whisked off to 1200s Scotland, where she meets Kain Monroe, the fierce and dangerous Laird of the Monroe clan.
Kain is dark, dan
gerous, and cold to most people in the Highlands. Christine finds him to be vile and cruel.
Then why is she finding herself to fall in love with a man she established she can't stand?
[ highest ranking: historical fiction #2 ]
Maria Cooper has always lived in the shadows of her family's world a world of power, secrets, and violence she's learned to navigate. But nothing could prepare her for Kadence King. At 25, he's the dangerous, enigmatic heir of a rival mafia family, a man who should be her greatest enemy.
Yet when fate brings them together, the line between love and danger blurs. Every glance, every whispered secret, every fleeting touch pulls them deeper into a storm neither can control. In a world where loyalty can kill and betrayal is inevitable; their passion becomes a weapon and a curse.
As tensions between their families escalate, Maria and Kadence must confront a choice that could destroy them both: surrender to a love that could ignite a deadly war or walk away and protect what's left of their lives. In the shadows of desire and danger, can love to survive or will it shatter under the weight of blood and vengeance?