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Julie Garwood

Highlands' Lairds #2

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A brave English woman enlists two fierce Scottish lairds to outwit the cruel baron who destroyed her family.

Content Warnings
death of loved oneviolence/gore

Description

With the help of Scottish chieftains Ramsey Sinclair and Brodick Buchanan, Gillian, a beautiful young women, matches wits with the ambitious and unscrupulous Baron Alford, the man responsible for the death of her father and the destruction of her family.

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