Love in Ruins by Erin Grace

Author:Erin Grace [Grace, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erin Grace

Exhausted from another fruitless search for Ellie, Ewan stood at the doorway to his father's chamber and stared inside.

The fiercest Highland warrior he'd ever known lay helpless and dying on the bed before him. Once tall and powerful, his father's massive frame had dwindled away to a fragile husk.

The tragic scene made his stomach turn.

This was no way for such a man to die. Yet no matter what they tried, nothing helped. Within weeks of falling ill, his father had become bedridden and unable to keep most food down.

Ewan had exhausted every resource at his command, sent for healers from every clan he knew, and even prayed that the once mighty Laird would recover.

Going to the chapel had been difficult for Ewan, not having been on speaking terms with the church since his mother died. The priest, Gregory, was a young man who'd not long arrived as replacement for the aging Father Martin.

Though he'd known Father Martin all his life, he'd never forgiven the man for his blasphemous remarks about his mother and her apparent connection with the heretic priests so long ago. On more than one occasion he'd suffered heavy penances for refuting the wild accusations made against his mother's honor. The old priest had even claimed his mother's soul wouldn't be allowed into Heaven, because she'd been part of an evil act and didn't receive the sacrament.

He'd also been angered by his father's reluctance to silence the outspoken priest. Instead, the Laird had become steadily consumed by guilt and remorse. Father Martin had convinced his father that it had been his duty to save his wife from the pagan ritual that soiled her soul, but he'd failed—not only as a husband, but as a Laird. Since he'd also killed the heretics, the other clans claimed he was responsible for the curse that had since plagued theirs and the surrounding lands.

Animals began dying, crops failed, and tension grew between all the clans. Gossip spread like winter sleet, and it hadn't taken very long before many of the other lairds started to believe that his father was to blame for their misfortunes. It seemed nothing his father tried would appease the ghosts of the dead. Eighteen years of misery had taken their toll.

Damn his mother.

Anger and resentment welled inside him, his fists balled at his sides.

And now, it seemed the ailing Laird was to pay the ultimate price for a woman not yet dead.

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