Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city where
danger lurks on every street corner, especially in the dark of night. But nothing can prepare
her for the powerful and sexual warrior who sweeps her back into medieval Scotland—a
treacherous, frightening world where the hunters and the hunted are one and the same. Claire
needs Malcolm to survive, yet she must somehow keep the dangerously seductive Master at
arm’s length.
— based on publicity material
She turned her back to him, hugging herself, aware that her entire body was shaking as if
with convulsions. She had always wanted to believe in time travel. There were scientists
who said it was possible, and they had put forth theories of quantum physics and black
holes to explain it. Claire hadn’t even tried to understand, as science was not an easy
subject for her. But she understood the basics: If one traveled faster than the speed of
light, one would go into the past.
None of the theories or what she had thought or even
currently believed mattered. She know with every fiber of her being that Malcolm was the
medieval laird of Dunroch.