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New York Times best-selling author Hannah Howell is a master of Scottish historical romance. In Highland Hero, she shares four of her finest short stories featuring heroes as wild and captivating as the Highlands themselves.

Fearsome Scots laird Gabriel MacLachlan must take a bride, but not just any bride. Magdalene, his liege lord's younger sister, is known to be as bonny as any Highland lass but as mad as a loon. Mad Maggie, they call her - and Gabriel has no choice. Not if he wants to put food in his clansmen's bellies, clothes on their backs, and repair the crumbling castle he calls home. A fat dowry in exchange for a madwoman, whose life will be in danger from the MacLachlan family curse the instant she becomes his wife.

Evan McAlister, jefe del clan McAlister recibe la orden del Rey Guillermo de Escocia de contraer matrimonio con una de las hijas del jefe del clan McGregor a fin de acabar con años de enemistad entre los dos clanes. Sin poder eludir lo inevitable Evan intenta contener los problemas que dicha unión está creando en la alianza con sus clanes vecinos y en el seno del suyo propio, sin poder imaginar que el enemigo está más cerca de lo que piensa.

Deirdre Mackenzie has spent her life hiding from her father and hating the English. However, when she is caught stealing from an English laird, his unexpected kindness begins to melt away her hatred and strums lonely heartstrings longing for love. Bryce Warwick discovers the “boy” caught with his livestock is actually a young woman.

Koblenz, 1379: Als die junge Grafentochter Reinhild von Wegelagerern übermannt wird, wähnt sie sich dem Tode nah. Zum Glück kommen ihr der Pilger Palmiro und sein Weggefährte Conlin zu Hilfe, bringen die Übeltäter zur Strecke und retten Reinhild. Für ihren Mann kommt die Rettung allerdings zu spät. Auf ihrem Weg zurück in die Heimat begleiten Conlin und Palmiro die junge Frau. Nur langsam erholt sie sich von den schrecklichen Ereignissen, und doch entwickelt sie zarte Gefühle für Conlin.

Cursed within an inch of his existence, Rory Benedict hides behind the thick walls of Aingealag Castle, away from prying eyes and away from the hell-bound witch who vies for his heart. Although, when a silver-haired lass plunges from the sky like a discarded angel, his life takes a turn - some say for the better. But Rory has his doubts. When Hannah Boyd wins an old, musty red bound book in a raffle, she is drawn into its pages and transported from her impersonal world of 2071 back to 1488, where she meets Rory Benedict, Laird of Aingealag.

Rocque Oliphant has simple wants: a fine sword at his hip, a good meal in his belly, and a lusty wench by his side. His position as the Oliphant Commander, leader of men, ensures the first, and his long-term affair with Merewyn, the clan healer, ensures the second and third. She brings him joy - and pleasure - in a way he once only dreamed of!

Malcolm Oliphant is, beyond a doubt, the brains of the family. Since his father, the laird, announced whichever brother could marry and produce a son first would become the heir, Malcolm's brothers have been running around, falling in love willy-nilly, without using their brains at all. But not Malcolm, oh no. He plans to do this intelligently.

Shipwrecked in enemy territory, Euan Brodie fears the rest of his crew are at the bottom of the Moray Firth. While he searches for his crew, the youngest barely 12 years old, he must evade Clan Ross warriors. Yet, when he sees a lass about to drown in the incoming tide, he risks capture to save her. Along with two other Munro lasses, Muireall Munro was taken by Clan Ross raiders nearly a month ago. She's yet to be claimed as a Ross bride.

The running wolf inscription told the world that a Solingen blade was at its throat. When a German smuggler is imprisoned in Morpeth Gaol in the winter of 1703, why does Queen Anne's powerful right-hand man, the Earl of Nottingham, take such a keen interest? At the end of the turbulent 17th century, the ties that bind men are fraying, turning neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and brother against brother.

Duncan Oliphant's father has insisted he - and all of his brothers - marry and start producing grandsons...like, yesterday. And Dunc is having none of it. All he wants in life is a small cottage behind his forge and enough gold and silver to craft valuable delicate jewelry.

Laird Oliphant's sons have no choice but to get married. Without an heir, the laird has gathered his sons - his six illegitimate sons, all born in the same year - and declared whoever presents him with a grandson first will become the next Highland Laird.

Kenneth Brodie offered for young Mary Catherine Rose but her father declined, then a year later accepted an offer from another clan. Furious at hearing Cat would be married soon to someone else, Kenneth fled to France and drowned his disappointment in wine, women and war.

Le destin hors du commun d'Ingeburge au cœur des secrets de la cour et des grands faits du royaume de France aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Une vie tragique, romanesque, liée pour le pire à son époux, le roi Philippe Auguste, mais qui révèle une personnalité pleine de force, et qui sera transcendée par un amour impossible avec un chevalier troubadour. 15 août 1193, en la cathédrale d’Amiens. Une foule en liesse découvre une belle princesse danoise, Ingeburge, sacrée reine du plus puissant royaume d’Europe par son union avec Philippe Auguste.

Lady Eve Sotherby dreams of escaping her horrid life in England, yet she has nowhere to run. So when she spies a posting for a companion in the Highlands, she seizes the chance to disappear. She’s heard tales about the barbaric Highlanders, of course, but no one can be worse than the beast she once foolishly agreed to wed. And never mind that she doesn’t meet any of the requirements for the position: must have no family, must love the cold, and must know the healing arts.

Deutschland, 1442: Marie und Michel finden auf dem Weg zu Freunden eine junge Frau mit einem Pfeil in der Brust. Sie sorgen dafür, dass ein Arzt, der sich Rasul al Hakimi nennt, die Verletzte rettet. Dadurch aber geraten sie in die Fehde verfeindeter Adelsgeschlechter. Um das Schlimmste zu verhindern, muss Marie das Geheimnis des Arztes aufdecken.

War and violence brought them together. Mysterious and ancient powers kept them together. It is the year 1211 CE. Five years after being declared "khan," Chinggis Khan and his invading hordes are sweeping across the North China plain, right into the n?zhen heartland. Their objective: conquest of the mighty Jin Empire.

Medieval Normandy. Before William the Conqueror conquered, there was the family D’Argent. And a marriage alliance destined to give rise to England’s formidable Wulfriths. Behold the victor. The day Godfroi D’Argent defeats his brother in a contest of arms, he gains his family’s lands. And a less than desirable bride. Certain it will be years before his enemy’s daughter grows into a lady of worth, he devotes himself to securing his lordship. When at last Robine assumes her rightful place, Godfroi is unprepared for how much she moves him.

Ein spannender Historischer Roman über mittelalterliche Medizin, ein geheimnisvolles Buch - und die rettende Kraft der Liebe. Mecklenburg, 1388. Eigentlich ist sie eine Grafentochter, privilegiert. Doch als ihr Vater stirbt, wird Emilia beschuldigt, eine Spionin zu sein, und muss fliehen. Dass der windige, aber kundige Wanderheiler Henricus sich ihrer annimmt, sie sogar in die Geheimnisse seines Könnens einweiht, ist ihre Rettung. Gemeinsam mit ihm reist Emilia von Mecklenburg nach Schweden - und wird erneut zur Gejagten.

Gideon Sinclair, the third Sinclair brother, judges everything in stark terms of good and evil. There is nothing in between, and he is efficient at passing judgment without mercy. Now that his clan has conquered the warring MacKays, Gideon starts the process of integrating them into the Sinclair Clan. He will sort the people, punish the bad, and better the lives of the good. Judging is as easy to him as breathing, until he meets Christina MacKay, who steals his breath...along with his Sinclair ring.