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Does revenge burn brighter than love?
Caolan Bannerman is ashamed to be the bastard son of a disreputable laird. When a high-born lass sparks desire in him, he suffers her mockery and a burning humiliation. He vows never to feel the agony of youthful infatuation again.
Years later, a death raises him up, and Caolan must wed to retain his newfound power. Luckily for him, a man who once despised him is desperate to marry off his daughters, and one is the lass responsible for Caolan’s humiliation - blonde temptress, Sybilla Munro.
It is time to even the score, but Caolan ends up with more than he can handle in a lass as cunning as she is comely, and with a grudge to equal his. He may long to humble Sybilla, but first, he must survive enemies who wait in the shadows, sniffing out his weaknesses. And it turns out that Sybilla might just be his greatest one.
Bold beauty, Sybilla Munro, had a glittering future. But when Caolan Bannerman discovered her being shamed, it all crashed down. With her family fortunes ruined, she ends up stuck in a mouldering castle at the whim of an uncaring father, tormented by the past. When Caolan crashes back into her life, their mutual loathing resurfaces. Caolan needs a bride, and soon, Sybilla is faced with a less than glittering future. She is to be wife to a gloomy, young man who despises her, mistress of a clan who mistrusts her and the target of enemies who would take Caolan’s riches and his life.
A poisoner is at large, spies whisper their secrets, and Scotland’s absent King watches the Marches, ready to crush any clan who disturbs his peace. If Sybilla is to survive, she has only one refuge – dark, intense, Caolan Bannerman.
But then another, more chivalrous admirer, rides into her life.
Sparks fly, and love challenges pride, in this enemies-to-lovers romance, unfolding over one sultry summer in the Scottish Marches.
Caolan’s Challenge is the final book in the Bannerman Brothers Trilogy but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.
Extract from Caolan’s Challenge
By the time they negotiated entry with a slack-jawed guard at the gate, the other rider had dismounted and was already at the door of the keep. Caolan was surprised to see it was a woman, as she flung back her hood to reveal long, blonde hair - a bright beacon in the fading light. At the sound of Fraser shouting for the horses to be taken, she turned.
Caolan’s breath caught, and his stomach flipped over, as he took in every detail of Sybilla Munro.
She was nothing like his memory of her from five years ago, save for one thing. Caolan looked past the threadbare dress, the dirt smeared-face and the rain-soaked hair, and he could see it still, that light in her, that flame of life so strong it could never be dimmed. Dishevelled though she was, the lass still had the power to quicken his loins and flood his chest with anger.
Though her eyes met his, Sybilla Munro gave no greeting, nor showed any recognition on her part. Why should she, for he was of no consequence to her? He never had been. Their eyes held with a fierce intensity, just for an instant, before she turned away and went inside.
All Caolan’s certainty cracked and fell at his feet.
Genre: Historical Romance
Caolan Bannerman is ashamed to be the bastard son of a disreputable laird. When a high-born lass sparks desire in him, he suffers her mockery and a burning humiliation. He vows never to feel the agony of youthful infatuation again.
Years later, a death raises him up, and Caolan must wed to retain his newfound power. Luckily for him, a man who once despised him is desperate to marry off his daughters, and one is the lass responsible for Caolan’s humiliation - blonde temptress, Sybilla Munro.
It is time to even the score, but Caolan ends up with more than he can handle in a lass as cunning as she is comely, and with a grudge to equal his. He may long to humble Sybilla, but first, he must survive enemies who wait in the shadows, sniffing out his weaknesses. And it turns out that Sybilla might just be his greatest one.
Bold beauty, Sybilla Munro, had a glittering future. But when Caolan Bannerman discovered her being shamed, it all crashed down. With her family fortunes ruined, she ends up stuck in a mouldering castle at the whim of an uncaring father, tormented by the past. When Caolan crashes back into her life, their mutual loathing resurfaces. Caolan needs a bride, and soon, Sybilla is faced with a less than glittering future. She is to be wife to a gloomy, young man who despises her, mistress of a clan who mistrusts her and the target of enemies who would take Caolan’s riches and his life.
A poisoner is at large, spies whisper their secrets, and Scotland’s absent King watches the Marches, ready to crush any clan who disturbs his peace. If Sybilla is to survive, she has only one refuge – dark, intense, Caolan Bannerman.
But then another, more chivalrous admirer, rides into her life.
Sparks fly, and love challenges pride, in this enemies-to-lovers romance, unfolding over one sultry summer in the Scottish Marches.
Caolan’s Challenge is the final book in the Bannerman Brothers Trilogy but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.
Extract from Caolan’s Challenge
By the time they negotiated entry with a slack-jawed guard at the gate, the other rider had dismounted and was already at the door of the keep. Caolan was surprised to see it was a woman, as she flung back her hood to reveal long, blonde hair - a bright beacon in the fading light. At the sound of Fraser shouting for the horses to be taken, she turned.
Caolan’s breath caught, and his stomach flipped over, as he took in every detail of Sybilla Munro.
She was nothing like his memory of her from five years ago, save for one thing. Caolan looked past the threadbare dress, the dirt smeared-face and the rain-soaked hair, and he could see it still, that light in her, that flame of life so strong it could never be dimmed. Dishevelled though she was, the lass still had the power to quicken his loins and flood his chest with anger.
Though her eyes met his, Sybilla Munro gave no greeting, nor showed any recognition on her part. Why should she, for he was of no consequence to her? He never had been. Their eyes held with a fierce intensity, just for an instant, before she turned away and went inside.
All Caolan’s certainty cracked and fell at his feet.
Genre: Historical Romance
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