Stolen by the Highlander

Stolen by the Highlander
Terri Brisbin

Kidnap in the Highlands!The morn of her wedding, Arabella Cameron is filled with dread. But if marrying a man she doesn’t love will end the feud between the Cameron and the Mackintosh clans she will do her duty. That is until outlaw Brodie Mackintosh arrives in her bedchamber and steals her away to the mountains!Brodie knows Arabella has every reason to hate him, but a forbidden kiss soon makes these sworn enemies question everything. And when Arabella’s intended reclaims her Brodie must fight with all his strength to make her his once more!A Highland Feuding: rival clans, forbidden love…

Arabella’s body throbbed.

Her lips were swollen. Her skin tingled. A place deep within her ached for something she could not identify. Well, if she was honest with herself, she could.

More. More of him.

The kisses she’d had with Caelan had never caused this wanting within her. They had been tepid, unmoving kisses. Just between two friends, with no air of intimacy or longing.

Brodie’s kiss had been possessive and enticing. He had tasted her and shown her how to taste him. He wanted her. She could hear it in his breathing and feel it in the way he held her and in the way his body … changed beneath her.

AUTHOR NOTE (#ulink_e34365dd-8b0b-5899-b099-28ca09d768f0)

Scotland’s history is filled with stories about feuds between the clans. When I was researching a previous book I discovered a feud between the powerful Mackintosh clan and the smaller Cameron clan that went on to last more than three hundred and fifty years!

It began in the early 1300s, over claims to a piece of land, and expanded over generations and across the lands of both the Mackintoshes and the Camerons. It eventually even involved the King of Scotland. Since the Mackintosh clan led the larger ‘Chattan Confederation’—a group of several clans and septs—it drew in large and small families over time.

After thousands of deaths, dozens of battles and attempts at truces and treaties, it ended in 1665, when the Camerons paid a fee to the Mackintoshes for the lands they claimed!

I have taken some liberties with the timing of some of the battles and the names or locations of some of the keeps, changing them to accommodate my story a bit, but the animosity between the clans is real. For when lands and titles and power and wealth are involved the truth can sometimes be stranger than any fictional story created to explain it all!

I hope you enjoy Stolen by the Highlander, the first book in my A Highland Feuding mini-series, and especially the sexy, brave Highlanders who seek to control their destinies and the strong women who tame them in the end!

Stolen by the Highlander

Terri Brisbin

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

TERRI BRISBIN is wife to one, mother of three, and dental hygienist to hundreds when not living the life of a glamorous romance author. She was born, raised, and is still living in the southern New Jersey suburbs. Terri’s love of history led her to write time-travel romances and historical romances set in Scotland and England.

I dedicate this book,

the first in my new series, to my editorial ‘team’ at Mills & Boon

Historical Romances in the Richmond UK office—especially Megan Haslam, Kathryn Cheshire and Senior Editor Linda Fildew. They constantly push me to make my work better and stronger for my readers, and though we sometimes disagree on how to accomplish that (LOL!), they always do it in a kind and supportive way. It’s been great working with you over these last several books—thanks for all you do for me!

Contents

Cover (#u289971dc-77de-50cf-a9bc-1e9fbbea0bd7)

Introduction (#u931ac74b-98e0-5ba2-a438-ee87be9f6d56)

Author Note (#u8e2764e2-d1c1-5b94-aacf-a5e2471a1159)

Title Page (#u25873cc0-5b2e-557f-a372-ac941d5592df)

About the Author (#u6e6d9efe-8e6c-563e-a866-6bd9a1e5a6f4)

Dedication (#ub57b27a3-2a64-568c-95b4-76a0e52f5e27)

Chapter One (#u67c856b1-e4a6-5437-9614-d57000ac265d)

Chapter Two (#u5755d15e-9387-52fa-b1b4-abca4ab2e6c4)

Chapter Three (#u678d4f07-4618-50be-bc8b-94054ce2d4de)

Chapter Four (#ue49e66db-b7cd-5726-8f8d-cf5972f3d551)

Chapter Five (#uc77d0f2b-58fd-5c6e-a7f9-dab806c0c91e)

Chapter Six (#u5c1e96e0-43b8-5573-b8a1-a5c0040cc0bd)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)