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Kinley MacGregor

Brotherhood of the Sword & MacAllister #3

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A Scottish beauty is forced to wed the infamous 'Lord Sin' — and fears her desire for him more than his dark reputation.

Description

Stunning Caledonia MacNeely fights an unfamiliar shiver when she is offered in marriage to the infamous ′Lord Sin′. Though Callie fears this mysterious knight - less for the dark whispers that damn him than for the burning desire he invokes - she is under order of the English King. And with the fate of her troubled clan hanging in the balance, she has little recourse.

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