title: Devil's Own
author: Wolff, Veronica
description: Fifteen years after he was kidnapped and sold into slavery, Aidan returns to Scotland to find the home he knew long gone.  His mother, a proper education, a chance at love -- gone. All he has now are dreams of vengeance…
  
  Only one woman could restore his tormented heart.
  
  Aidan MacAlpin appreciates the hospitality of his brothers and sisters, but after surviving hell on earth, they feel more like strangers than kin. They could never understand his one ambition: To exact bloody revenge on the bastard who enslaved him all those years ago…
  
  Elspeth Farquharson had already resigned herself to the life of a spinster when she's hired to tutor dark, brooding Aidan -- a real-life hero more enticing than any from her adventure books. If only she could convince this tragic rogue that she's not the nervous, stuttering bookworm she appears to be. But when Aidan shows her a clue to his tortured past, she'll be thrust into a dangerous game of passion and deception that will awaken the sexy heroine within -- if it doesn't kill her first…