THE HIGHLANDER’S HOSTAGE. A DARK HIGHLANDER FORCED MARRIAGE ROMANCE: His captive. His enemy. His to break. Enemies to Lovers tension (Blood & Highland Desire #2)

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What would you do if your own father traded you to the man who swore to destroy him?

The day I crossed the Highland border, I learned two things:
peace is a lie written in blood…
and the man who claimed me as his hostage has ice in his soul colder than the mountains he rules.

I am Isobel Fraser.
Daughter of a traitor clan.
The living guarantee of a broken pact.

I was raised to survive among whispers and blades.
But I had never seen a man look at the world as if he had already conquered it… and found it unworthy.

He is Alasdair MacLeod.
Laird of a clan built on silence and steel.

They call him ruthless.
They call him unbreakable.
I call him a granite storm—cold, lethal, and commanding without ever raising his voice.

I was meant to be leverage.
A bargaining piece to stop my father’s war.
Instead, I became something far more dangerous.

Because captivity does strange things to loyalty.
And some wars ignite long before the first sword is drawn.

SYNOPSIS
The MacLeod clan is unraveling—border raids, hidden alliances, betrayal that smells of smoke and peat.

Isobel fights not to become the bait in a trap designed by her own father, the merciless Malcolm Fraser.
Alasdair keeps her under his protection—a protection that feels like a sentence.

He does not make promises.
He does not beg.
And when he touches her, it is not gentleness she feels… but inevitability.

Between them burns:

• Enemies to Lovers tension
• Forced proximity
• Political betrayal
• Clan warfare
• A desire sharp enough to wound

And somewhere in the shadows, an unseen enemy is willing to sacrifice Isobel just to see Alasdair brought to his knees.

I learned something in captivity:
There are men who break your will.
And there are men who force you to rebuild it just to survive them.
He is both.

Perfect for readers of Diana Gabaldon, Monica McCarty, Julie Garwood, Kerrigan Byrne, and Maya Banks.

If you crave dark Highlander romance, emotional warfare, strategic desire, and a love forged under threat of death—

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“Some men bow to fate. I prefer fate to ask my permission.”
— Alasdair MacLeod