title: The Devil's Laird
author: Jernigan, Brenda K.
description: The White Witch As Lady Siena stands on a platform waiting to die, she realizes that she has been doomed from the day she was born.  She doesn't believe she is worth anything, much less love.  Her own people believe she is cursed.  Siena's only true blessing is the gift of sight.The Devil's Laird Roderick, Warlord of Kirkurd, is driven by revenge and guilt.  When his holding was attacked, his wife ravished and slain, and his son missing, the goodness within Roderick died.  He is now known as the Devil's Laird.The Meeting . . . Roderick saves Siena from the hangman's noose and takes her back to his castle.  Siena sees a lonely, haunted man who needs her.  But no matter how hard she tries, she cannot completely break down the barrier Roderick has constructed around his heart, nor shake the curse of bad luck that his people believe she carries.  Only the Holy Grail can prove if she is good or evil. When Siena sacrifices herself to free Roderick's son, Roderick realizes that he has lost his chance to love again.  Now he will move heaven and earth to find her before it is too late./ul