THE HIGHLANDER’S HOSTAGE WIFE. A DARK ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS ROMANCE SET IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS: His Hostage. His Obsession. His Ruin (Blood & Highland Desire #5)

What if the man your father sells you to would rather see you dead than share his bed? Enemies by blood. Bound by marriage. Ruined by desire.

The day my father traded me to the MacRae clan, he called it peace.

Duncan MacRae called it leverage.

I crossed the gates of his fortress as a bride… but every man in that castle looked at me like a spy waiting to be executed.

I am Ailsa Cameron. Daughter of a traitor. A hostage wrapped in silk. I was raised to smile while men decided my fate, but no one warned me what happens when the enemy looks at you like he is already calculating how much blood it will cost to keep you alive.

Duncan MacRae is the laird of a dying clan. War carved the mercy out of him long ago. His people want my head on the walls.

Instead, he keeps me.

Not because he trusts me.

Because he refuses to lose the war my father started.

In his fortress I am not a wife.

I am a prisoner.

A woman watched by warriors sharpening their axes while deciding whether my death would buy a cleaner peace than my breathing.

And Duncan MacRae makes one thing painfully

He does not promise. He does not forgive. And if I betray him… he will be the one to end me. But the longer I remain in his castle, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Because I was never meant to survive here.

I was meant to destroy him.

SYNOPSIS

The Highlands are bleeding under broken alliances and English manipulation.

Malcolm Cameron has sold his own daughter to the MacRae clan to hide his alliance with the Crown and tear the Highlands apart from the inside.

Duncan MacRae knows the marriage is a trap.

Keeping Ailsa alive is a strategic decision… until protecting her begins to threaten everything he has built.

Because the woman he chained inside his walls refuses to behave like a prisoner.

She listens.

She lies.

She steals secrets.

And she proves that even in chains… she can decide who falls first.

Between the laird and the hostage he married there is no peace.

Distrust Violence Desire that refuses to die In a land ruled by steel and blood, Ailsa Cameron will learn there are two kinds of men.

The ones who sacrifice you to win the war.

And the ones who make you choose between dying for them…

or ruling beside them.

THE HIGHLANDER’S HOSTAGE WIFE

A dark enemies-to-lovers Highland romance where captivity becomes power, loyalty is written in blood… and the hostage bride might become the most dangerous woman in the Highlands.

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