title: The Legend Mackinnon: A Novel
author:  Donna Kauffman 
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  The MacKinnon’s Bride
  
  TANYA ANNE CROSBY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
  This work is a novel. Any similarities to actual persons or events, living or
  dead, is purely coincidence.
  
    
  
  ISBN-10: 0988497417
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-9884974-1-2
  
    
  
  Cover design by
  
  
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  All rights reserved.
  
  Published by Oliver-Heber Books at Smashwords
  
    
  
  Copyright © Tanya Anne Crosby
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
    
  
    
  
  For my beautiful mother, who gifted me with a love for storytelling.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Other books in this series by
  
  Tanya Anne Crosby
  
    
  
  LYON’S GIFT
  
  ON BENDED KNEE
  
  LION HEART
  
    
  
  All coming soon as e-books
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
    
  
    
  
  Chreagach Mhor, Scotland 1118
  
    
  
  Iain, laird of the MacKinnons, descendant of the powerful sons of MacAlpin,
  paced the confines of the hall below his chamber like an overeager youth.
  
  So much hope was affixed upon this birth.
  
  Now, at last, thirty years of feuding with the MacLeans would come to an end.
  Aye, for how could auld man MacLe