After returning from war all but totally blind by a would-be assassin's hand, Nathan Oriel spends his days in bitterness and isolation. Until Isobel MacLeod--caught in his steely embrace one fateful night--shatters his world with her Scottish temper, her pride, and her courage. Isobel, by her own admission a woman of too much brain and too little beauty, is a spinster devoted to keeping her wayward family out of...
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