Fool Me Once

The first rule of running away from a murderous fiancé: DO NOT stop for anybody.

Eleyne Armstrong broke it before she'd cleared the border, and took a blade in her side for her trouble. All because she has never once managed to ride past trouble. Now she's stuck recovering in a stranger's hall with a grumpy laird who wants her gone.

His children have other plans.

But the longer she stays in this silent keep, the more certain she becomes that something in it is badly broken, and that nobody is allowed to say so.

Struan Sinclair buried his wife three years ago, along with the secret she confessed on her deathbed. What he did not bury was his temper, and the half-dead stranger bleeding in his hall is testing it sorely. The reckless woman threw herself between his children and four English blades and took a knife for the privilege. He owes her a debt. He does not have to like it.

But the man she jilted has not given up.

Can two stubborn souls learn to trust one another before her past rides through his gates?

Mature Content. NO cheating. NO cliffhangers. HEA.