title: The Princess and The Laird: A Highland Secrets Prequel
author:  C.A. Szarek 
description: USA Today Bestselling, award winning author of romantic suspense, epic and historical fantasy romance, C.A. loves to dabble in different genres. If it's a good story, she'll write it, no matter where it seems to fit! She's a hopeless romantic and always will be. Risking it all for Happily Ever After is what she lives by! C.A. is originally from Ohio, but got to Texas as soon as she could. She's happily married and has a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. She works with kids when she's not writing.
zlib_text: > > **HIGHLANDER’S DECEPTIVE ANGEL**
  
  > > EMILIA C. DUNBAR
  
  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Highlander’s Fateful Ride_
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Afterword_
  
  > > **PROLOGUE**
  
  It took a long time for the Gilmour army to thunder over the drawbridge and
  into the castle. By the sheer number of them, Laird John Gilmour could tell
  that it had been a successful sortie, and the interlopers had been sent back
  to lick their wounds. However, although his troops had come home victorious,
  not one of them looked happy about it.
  
  The laird went out to greet his right-hand man, Alan Gordon, and saw with
  alarm that his shoulders were slumped, and his face was a ma