num_pages: 60
description: 
  ’Tis said if you love something, you should set it free...
  Ailsa Rose Macdonell has loved Calum MacKellar since childhood. All she wants is to be his wife and spend the rest of her life at his side. Calum cannot not deny he has a fondness for young Ailsa, but his boyhood wish is to become a crusader knight, to fight alongside his brethren in the merciless heat of the Holy Land. When Calum is obliged to wed, he finds himself torn between staying with his wife and an enduring desire to fulfill his lifelong dream.  Can a young wife’s love for her husband give her the strength to let him go? Will his token of eternal love be enough to sustain her faith in his safe return?  Inspired by the real legend of the white heather, a miraculous event gives hope and comfort to a family at Christmastide.  Previously published in the 
   A Night of Angels
 anthology
title: A Sprig of White Heather
publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.