<b>A cowboy without a home</b><br /><br />Robbed of the family ranch that should have been his legacy, Raleigh Beaumont is a man with no roots and no purpose. When a friend drags him to Vegas, he figures he&rsquo;s got nothing to lose. But after a hell of a lot of whiskey and a high stakes poker game with a beautiful stranger, he finds himself the alleged owner of a barony in Scotland.<br /><br /><b>An heiress with a crumbling heritage</b><br /><br />When her brother&rsquo;s bride disappears just days before the wedding that&rsquo;s meant to save their ancestral home from the mad marriage pact that&rsquo;s held their family captive for generations, Kyla MacKean believes they&rsquo;ve been granted a reprieve. Until she finds out about the new, single&mdash;male&mdash;owner of Lochmara and knows she&rsquo;s next on the chopping block or ownership of both their estates reverts to the crown.<br /><br /><b>A modern answer to a three-hundred-year-old problem.</b><br /><br />Raleigh&rsquo;s lost his land once. He&rsquo;s not about to lose it again. Not even because of some lunatic pact made centuries before he was born. Kyla&rsquo;s desperate to save Ardinmuir. She agrees to marry him on one condition: They wed for one year to satisfy the pact, then get a quick and quiet divorce. There&rsquo;s no stipulation against it, and they&rsquo;ll both get what they want.<br /><br />But this displaced Texan and his fiery bride are about to find so much more than they bargained for.