Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie<U+2014>that she<U+2019>s pregnant with another man<U+2019>s child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster<U+2026>until she claps eyes on the powerful and wickedly handsome Laird Hunt MacLarin. She<U+2019>s the answer to his curse<U+2026>Laird of an ancient clan, Hunt needs an heir, but he comes from a long line of men cursed to die before the birth of their firstborn. When the Duke of Autenberry approaches him with a proposition<U+2014>marry my ruined sister<U+2014>it seems the perfect solution. Even better, the defiant lass stirs him to his very soul. No escaping the truth... Except marriage cannot set them free. No matter how much Hunt desires her. No matter how much Clara burns for him. Soon she is falling for her husband, but is love enough to end the curse? Or is the tragic history of the MacLarin Clan doomed to repeat itself?