"I shall enjoy spending the next three years making you regret your disrespect."
His threat made her heart pound an uncomfortable beat. "Three years? I reach maturity in two months, twenty-three days, and fourteen hours. Upon that day, I claim my freedom from my apprenticeship."
"No, my sweet," he said, a cheerless smirk touching his reddened cheek. "The
sand in the glass has just started falling on your newest indentures. To me."
Three more years locked in her indentures was appalling enough. But trapped in submission to the arrogant Englishman would feel like three centuries.
Lessons in Loving
a Laird
Highland Knaves Series, Book 2
A DEFIANT APPRENTICE
Thrust into indentured servitude as a child, Shona Slayter is counting the days until her twenty-first birthday, when she gains her precious freedom. Unfortunately, the new laird of the estate has other plans—and he’s determined to keep her bound to him. The only way for Shona to be free of her bonds is to marry the man who holds the key. But seducing a handsome laird is not what she was trained for, and the more she tries to win his heart, the more she loses hers.
A HARD MASTER
With a young son to raise and a crumbling Scottish estate to manage, Conall has enough to worry about without the brazen, beautiful Shona challenging him at every turn. But their heated spats are starting to turn into real sparks…and soon the Scottish hills are ablaze with their forbidden attraction. Yet no matter what Shona is willing to do to buy her freedom, Conall has no intention of letting her go…

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