title: The Lady and the Highlander (Highland Fairytale)
author:  Lecia Cornwall 
description: "The Highland setting gave the story a unique twist, as did the villainous scheme of our heroine's evil stepmother." ---Bambi Unbridled
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  Find out more about the hero and heroine of Book One of THE IMMORTAL HIGHLAND
  CENTURIONS
  
  [_Your free short stories are
  waiting!_](http://www.jaynecastel.com/historical/the-immortal-highland-
  centurions/your-short-stories-are-waiting)
  
  The centurion with a heart of stone. The lady who scorns him. A marriage that
  will end the curse. Enemies to lovers in Medieval Scotland.
  
  **Draco Vulcan stopped caring about anything or anyone years ago.** Cursed to
  live forever, he only finds joy on the battlefield. But in order to break the
  curse upon him and his friends, he must wed a woman he can’t stand.
  
  **The lady in question has just escaped a loveless marriage.** The last thing
  she wants is to enter another one—especially to the cold, brutal warrior who
  fights at William Wallace’s side.
  
  When the English king hears that Wallace is hiding at Dunnottar Castle, and
  lays siege to the fortress—Draco and the widow must band together against th