title: The Highlander's Reluctant Bride
author: CATHY MACRAE
description: Welcome to my Highlander's Bride series. Each book reads as a stand-alone, but characters from other books do drop in :-) You'll also find the hero/heroine of one book may have been a secondary character in another book. Here are the books in the order they were written:
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  The Highlander’s
  
  Tempestuous
  
  Bride
  
  Cathy MacRae
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Returning home after a ten-year absence, Ryan Macraig falls for a fiery, red-
  haired lass from the wrong end of the firth. He can’t ignore his need to see
  her again, even knowing she must be a hated Macrory.
  
  Gilda Macrory trespasses Macraig land, but haunting memories of the young man
  she once met there draw her to the forbidden place. Learning he is Laird
  Macraig’s son threatens her dreams, for her father would never agree to a
  marriage between his daughter and their enemy’s son.
  
  With pirates raiding the coast, bad blood between the Macraig and Macrory
  clans could cost Ryan and Gilda their love—and their lives.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is dedicated to Derek—my very own hero.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  Ard Castle, above the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, 1375
  
  Ten-year-old Ryan Macraig sat astride his horse, struggling to keep his
  emotions in check. He gritted his teeth, but refused to let his father see him
  as less than a man g