A woman desperate to escape an arranged marriage. A prisoner with nothing to lose. The promise that will change their lives forever. Adaira MacLeod has just been betrothed to a brutal older man-a chieftain many believe responsible for his last wife's death. Adaira is desperate. She'll do anything to avoid wedding him. Lachlann Fraser is a chieftain's eldest son, and prisoner in Dunvegan dungeons. Captured after a bloody battle between the MacLeods and Frasers, Lachlann faces a bleak and uncertain future ... until Adaira approaches him to strike a bargain: his life for her freedom. Lachlann agrees-he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. But some bargains come at a high price.