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One man is a cruel and powerful Lord obsessed with finding his child and punishing his runaway wife. For seventeen years he’d combed the northeast, offering rewards for their capture and killing anyone who got in the way. Now the child has been found and the story revealed. Brutally beaten, his wife had escaped to a fishing village to give birth to a son, die, and remain nameless. The Earl must reclaim the lad and mold him in his image, for the boy is the heir of an aging Duke and a key to the expansion of his empire. |
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The other man is a teenage fisherman who believes he is the son of a peasant family. Born on the Day of the Dead, both he and his brother have the Second Sight, read minds, and experience each other’s pain and pleasure. Dughall is a good man who sees God in all things and acts accordingly. He uses his psychic gifts to heal others, risking his life at a time when healers are hanged as witches. Secretly engaged to a woodland priestess, his life is torn apart when he’s claimed by his real father, the cruel and powerful Earl of Huntly. Can a good man survive in a reality that requires him to be ruthless? Will he prevail and rise to his birthright? |
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Another powerful man has searched tirelessly for this child. The Duke’s daughter disappeared seventeen years ago when she was about to give birth to the Earl’s child. Visited by her spirit after her death, the Duke was tasked with finding the boy and keeping him safe. Lord Drake considers the Earl a mortal enemy and is convinced that he caused her disappearance. When his grandson arrives at Huntly Castle, he must make peace with his adversary to gain access to the lad. The Duke is in his final days and knows it. Will there be time to find out what happened to his daughter and install his grandson as head of his kingdom? Will his enemy inherit his vast empire? |
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Keira is a raven-haired lass with eyes as green as a peacock’s feather. The young woman lives in the Forest of Deer near an ancient stone circle where they worship the Goddess. Bearing the scars of witnessing her mother’s death on the gallows, she becomes a healer, sets bones, and delivers babies. At sixteen she is chosen as priestess and expected to marry the old priest, but Keira has her heart set on a handsome young fisherman she met in the woods. There’s only one problem. In her world, they are forbidden to have contact with outsiders. |
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The son of the Earl of Huntly by an earlier marriage, Lord Gilbert is heir to his father’s estate and title. He sees his new brother as an ignorant peasant, more of an inconvenience than a threat. Until now, his focus has been to stay clear of his father’s wrath and avoid his whip. But the game has changed. Tasked with his brother’s care and education, he can’t help admire the lad’s conviction to stand up for what he believes in. Will he toss Dughall to the wolves or stand by him when the going gets tough? |
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A beautiful young woman of considerable sexual talents, Kate has served as the Earl’s mistress for ten years. When the Earl sends her to his new son to break his virginity, she is pleasantly surprised. Not only is the lad a mirror image of his father at an earlier age, but he is sexually intuitive, sensing what she wants before she asks for it. She goes beyond what the Earl asked, staying the night and teaching him the French practice. Kate vows that she will return to his bed often and eventually claim him as her own. Will she create a rift between father and son? |
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Ian Hay is a fiery young man with a deep connection to his brother. From an early age, the boys were able to read each other’s thoughts, feel mutual pain and pleasure, and sense each other’s location. After Dughall’s abduction, Ian is the family’s only link to the lad they love. It doesn’t matter that they’re miles apart. Ian feels the lash on Dughall’s back, as well as Kate’s tender ministrations. The fisher folk family wants him back. Will their connection play a role? |
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