Virtue and Valor: Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series by Collette Cameron

Author:Collette Cameron [Cameron, Collette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619358041
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2015-06-23T23:00:00+00:00

The renegades had dared to trespass onto Ewan’s lands, their intent murderous. Something powerful drove them to take such a monumental risk.

Oh God, they think I’m Lydia.

What would her abductors do when they discovered they had the wrong woman?

Isobel tried to swallow again, gagging on the rag. She had never been so thirsty in her life. Terror dried her parched mouth further. She tried touching her throbbing face and found her hands tied behind her.

Trussed up tighter than a Christmas goose.

She shook her fingers and wrists, gasping as shards of pain streaked to her elbows.

A dank, earthy smell permeated the air. A gust of cold air speared her, and she shivered. She must be outdoors, and from the clammy material clinging to her, she would guess wet as fresh-washed fleece.

From the raucous chorus of frogs ebbing and flowing, a pond must be nearby. Another torrent of gut-wrenching fear slammed into her.

Did her abductors mean to defile her? She’d seen the hunger in Dunbar and the other Scots’ lascivious gazes. If they discovered she wasn’t Lydia, they would ravish her in less time than it took to butter bread.

Terror squeezed her ribs, and she couldn’t inhale.

No, she wouldn’t panic. Calmness and reason must be her weapons. If only she’d been conscious while they traveled, she would have an idea of her location and possible escape routes.

Forcing her body to relax, Isobel drew in a bracing breath and counted to ten, then exhaled bit by bit. She must keep her wits about her. She’d gotten into this mess; she may very well have to get out of it alone.

First, where was she?

Cracking an eyelid open, she surveyed her surroundings. She lay in a smallish cave—not much more than a hollow in the hillside—barely large enough to stretch full length in.

She carefully turned her head in the direction of the raspy murmur of male voices.

A few feet beyond the cavern’s entrance, her abductors sat before a fire eating what appeared to be roasted rabbit. A pair of drowsy horses stood tethered to a pine tree beside a trickling stream.

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