title: Highland Steel
author: Rose, Elizabeth
description: She needs him to escort her to the Highlands.But where she wants him to take her is to enemy territory. It's a dangerous game she plays!The Sassenach:Englishwoman Lady Rhoswen Asquith accompanies her father and siblings on a journey to the Highlands, setting out on a very dangerous but important mission. The plan is to save her baby nephew from her late sister's murderous Highland husband. But then her traveling party is attacked, her escorts killed by bandits, and her father left for dead. With the only item they had to barter for her nephew's return now stolen, she and her younger siblings are left without an escort and stranded on the wrong side of the border.The Highlander:Logan MacKeefe travels with his pet wolf at his side, and his sword in his grasp. But today he's been thrown out of the Horn and Hoof Tavern in Glasgow because his wolf has stolen a chicken right out of old Callum MacKeefe's soup pot. Wanting a few minutes of peace and quiet, he bathes in the loch and suns himself on a rock to dry. But it isn't long before he is disturbed, as a bonnie lassie atop a horse comes crashing through the thicket, right toward him.She's a Sassenach who begs him to help her dying father. Never able to turn away a bonnie lassie in distress, Logan agrees. But when her father dies, Logan finds himself in the middle of a harrowing situation. He's agreed to be protector and escort, but where she wants him to take her is right to his enemy's door.Will honor and love win over revenge and guilt, as two people who should never be together find comfort and solace in each other's embrace? How far are they both willing to go for love?