At last, he has her under his thumb, right where he wants her, and can get retribution for the damage Alpin caused by a prank gone wrong when she was just six years old.Īs Malcom and Alpin plot their revenge on each other, each trying to claim what they believe they deserve, neither of them expects the flames of passion that ignite between them. When the beautiful Alpin arrives on his doorstep declaring her land-and herself-are for his taking, Malcom is thrilled. With her maid, Elanne, by her side, Alpin devises a plan to trick Malcom into marrying her so she can become the rightful owner of the plantation she has been living on for years.
Infuriated that her childhood nemesis turned Scottish lord, Malcom Kerr, stole her land, Lady Alpin MacKay travels to Kildalton Castle to seduce him into forfeiting the land back to its rightful owner. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.In the second book of the Border Series by bestselling, award-wining author Arnette Lamb, Lady Alpin MacKay storms the Kildalton Castle in the Scottish hills, determined to reclaim the property stolen from her by her childhood nemesis, the devilishly handsome Lord Malcom Kerr. She only wants to possess her uncle's plantation so that she can free the slaves who toil there.Ĭopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Upon his release after seven years of imprisonment in the Tower of London, the Highland Chieftain Drummond Macqueen thinks of only one thingrevenge. We give them freedom." Alpin is equally ahead of her time. An enchanting tale of love set in medieval Scotland by the New York Timesbestselling author of Border Lord and Border Bride. Malcolm's former mistress was using a contraceptive sponge and at one point he claims "in our culture we value our women for more than childbearing. In the second book of the Border Series by bestselling, award-wining author Arnette Lamb, Lady Alpin MacKay storms the Kildalton Castle in the Scottish hills.
Veering from the ridiculous to the incomprehensible, Lamb ( Border Lord ) writes cryptically about Scottish politics and blithely introduces contemporary mores and habits. When she was six Alpin opened a jar of hornets under the toga Malcolm wore to impersonate Julius Caesar and the insects stung his testicles until they were "as big as the blacksmith's fists." Believing himself infertile and Alpin the cause of it, Malcolm "handfasts" himself to her, meaning that they will sleep together but only marry when she becomes pregnant. In 1735 Alpin MacKay's uncle dies and leaves the Barbados plantation she has run for years not to her but to Malcolm Kerr, a Scottish nobleman and the childhood friend with whom she played "kiss-the-freckle." Alpin returns to Scotland to seduce him with the help of her maid Elanna's "come-to-me sauce" and then trick him out of the plantation, but Malcolm has his own agenda: ruining Alpin's reputation.
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