num_pages: 302
description: Harboring a fugitive is dangerous enough. Falling in love with her could mean the end of his dreamsand his life.After nearly ten years in the army Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the 45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it Hamish must not only find the money to pay off the estates debts but persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobites son. With the help of his brother-in-arms Hamish finds employment at an inn near to Dalmores overseer putting him in an ideal location to seek the mans favor.Ava MacMorran cannot marry Angus MacKinnon. Any fate would be preferable. Escaping her fathers threats of force Ava sets out for the home of the childhood friend she knows will help herperhaps even marry her. But when the merchant meant to take her there is nowhere to be found and Ava is mistaken for a long-awaited inn servant she determines to go along with the misconception until she can be rescued by her friend.With Ava ignorant of Hamishs goals and Hamish unaware that he is harboring the fugitive daughter of the lynchpin of his plan attachment between them deepens and the threat of discovery looms large making a satisfactory outcome seem all but impossible.The Innkeeper and the Fugitive is a clean romance and the third book in the Tales from the Highlands series. For greatest enjoyment it is strongly recommended that the books be read in order.
language: English
title: The Innkeeper and the Fugitive
publisher: Paradigm Press