Meg Drummond wanted nothing to do with love -- not when she'd seen her own parents' marriage fall apart. And though she'd promised to marry an Englishman to spite her father, she had yet to find someone to win her senses until Alec MacLaren charged back into her deep-seated passions with his wicked Highland ways. Alec kidnapped and married her out of loyalty to her father. He knew he needed to break through the wall of ice around her heart, gain her trust, and awaken her desire to truly make her his bride.