THE HIGHLANDER’S HOSTAGE

HE HELD ME AGAINST MY WILL. HE BECAME THE ONLY MAN I COULD TRUST. THEN I DISCOVERED THAT THE SECRET THAT COULD DESTROY HIM HAD BEEN HIDDEN WITHIN HIS CASTLE WALLS FOR TWENTY YEARS.

My name is Ishbel Carrick.

I'm no lady waiting for a Highlander to rescue her. I can read blueprints, hold my own among armed men, and recognize a lie.

Or so I thought.

A letter bearing Niall Ardcraig's signature brought me to the Highlands. Forty marks persuaded me to leave Stirling. Then an ambush turned my journey into a nightmare.

My companions are dead. The attackers were looking for my father. Instead, they found me.

Now Niall Ardcraig, the man I should hate, has locked me inside his castle.

He is my captor, my only protection, and the last man I should ever desire.

Niall needs me alive until Lammas. I'm the only witness who can identify the killers and help him defend his ancestral lands.

I want to go home. But my enemies are still out there, and Niall refuses to let me leave.

So I must live under the same roof as a proud, infuriating laird whose silences hide as much as his questions reveal. The more I see beyond his distrust, the harder it becomes to remember that I'm his hostage.

Because beneath his cold exterior is a man carrying an entire valley on his shoulders.

And beneath my anger is something far more dangerous.

Desire.

But Dùn Cailleach guards secrets of its own.

The letter that brought me here is a forgery. My father's blueprints conceal something someone desperately wants to recover. And one tower has been sealed for twenty years, on the orders of Niall's father.

What happened the night the laird's mother disappeared?

Why is someone willing to kill to keep the truth buried?

The closer Niall and I get to the answers, the harder it becomes to distinguish friend from foe. A traitor lurks within these walls. An old blood debt threatens the valley. And a hidden chamber may hold the key to everything.

Niall made me his hostage to save his home.

But I may be the only person who can discover who is trying to destroy it.

WHAT IF SAVING THE MAN I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH MEANS REVEALING A TRUTH THAT COULD DESTROY HIS FAMILY?

I came to the Highlands for money and a chance to put my own life back together. I never meant to fall for a laird who challenges me, listens when others would silence me, and makes me question everything I thought I knew.

Now the man I should fear may be the only one I can trust.

A HOSTAGE WHO REFUSES TO SURRENDER.

A HIGHLANDER WHO DARES NOT TRUST HER.

A SEALED TOWER. A MISSING WOMAN. TWENTY YEARS OF LIES.

And a love that could cost them everything.

If you love clever, sharp-tongued heroines, proud Highlanders, forced proximity, dangerous secrets, enemies-to-lovers tension, and historical romance packed with adventure and twists, enter Dùn Cailleach.

Its walls conceal more than the truth.

Sometimes, the man who holds you captive is the only one who can set you free.

ENTER THE CASTLE. UNCOVER THE SECRET. LET THE HIGHLANDER CAPTURE YOUR HEART.

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