After Kylie Grant’s feckless husband leaves her a penniless widow, she has two choices: return to her family in disgrace or find herself a job. Determined to make herself useful, she chooses the latter and takes a position at Dounarwyse broch on the Isle of Mull.
Rae Maclean is a powerful chieftain … but an unhappy one. After a passionless marriage, he’s sworn never to wed again. However, with his two sons running wild, he needs someone to keep them in check. Hiring the stern but lovely Kylie seems like a wise choice at the time, but from the moment she moves in, he fights a growing desire for her.
And when he discovers that, like him, Kylie has given up on love—but not sex—laird and employee embark on a sensual game: for the next few months, they will enjoy each other’s bodies and explore all the things they’ve both missed out on. But once spring arrives, their relationship will go back to being platonic.
