Dougald MacNeill is the next to youngest MacNeill brother and he's not
about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his
lap...and then, the trouble begins.
When Dougald finds Alana roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands,
he takes her in hand to see his laird brother James at Craigly Castle to
determine her fate. But who has sent her there and why? Her uncle,
laird of the Cameron clan, that has warred with the MacNeills for years,
has made a marriage arrangement with another clan and now that is even
at stake.
Having witnessed her father's death, and even believing he had
returned her home when all along he had been dead, Alana discovers she
has the gift, or curse, of seeing the newly departed and sometimes those
who should have long ago passed over. Her own deceased brother
continues to plague her, the rake, and now another, who is very much of
the flesh, Dougald MacNeill, has her thinking marrying a rake might just
have its benefits. Dougald's sister, who is one feisty ghost, has
offered to help Alana keep Dougald in line if he thinks of even
straying.
But who sent Alana on a fool's errand in the first place to remove
her from the Cameron's lands and set her squarely in Dougald's care, and
who really killed her father and her brother, and what has it all to do
with Alana? Will she and Dougald learn the truth before it is too late?