Bought By The Baron: A Steamy BWWM Interracial Multicultural Enemies to Lovers Scottish Highlands Historical Romance

What happens when research crosses the line between scholarship and desire?

I needed money to save my father's life. That's why I took the job with Baron MacKenzie. His ad said he needed someone who knew about ancient rituals—and who would help "demonstrate" them. I knew what that meant. I just didn't know how it would make me feel.

When I first saw Magnus, with his battle scars and intense eyes, something stirred inside me. He offered triple what any university would pay. All I had to do was help with his "research"—skin against skin, bodies aligned just like in the ancient texts. It was supposed to be clinical. Scientific.

But the first time his hands touched me, I knew there was nothing clinical about the heat building between us.




Since Crimea, pain has been my constant companion. Doctors couldn't help. My only hope lay in forgotten knowledge—ancient healing rituals that required two bodies moving as one.

I never expected Dr. Eleanor Winters. Brilliant, beautiful, with knowledge of traditions from both our cultures. I hired her for her brain. I told myself our "demonstrations" were purely academic.

What a lie that was.

When she stands naked in the moonlight, covered in ritual markings, I forget all about research. When she moves beneath me, her body taking mine so perfectly, the pain finally stops. But something else grows in its place—something far more dangerous than physical desire.

Now her former professor threatens everything we've discovered—including the feelings neither of us expected in our strictly professional arrangement.

The contract that brought us together never mentioned falling in love. But some things can't be contained by words on paper—especially when two bodies have learned how perfectly they fit together.

Their contract specified research. Their bodies demanded more. BOUGHT BY THE BARON will leave you breathless and begging for your own private "demonstration."