"I want me inheritance and ye want to avoid the hangman. Are ye gonna be me wife or no?" How can a girl resist such a romantic proposal? Sally the Whore has no choice, but to flee to the Highlands with Conall MacKenzie. The dratted bear of a man has discovered that she murdered a man attempting to rape her and now he knows about her hidden sorceress powers. Despite her deep love for him, she knows the emotional scars created when she was sold into slavery as a child make it impossible to be a wife. Conall must marry a sorceress or forfeit his lands to his cousin. When he discovers the whore he's obsessed with is a sorceress, he changes his mind. She will not become his mistress. She will be his wife, even if he has to use heavy handed tactics to get her out of the brothel and into his bed. Their love at stake, Conall must find a way to heal the damage done to Sally so that she can truly be his. Their lives endangered, Sally must find the ones responsible for the deaths of Conall's parents before the murderer strikes again