"Stay away from him—he's a strange one!" If only Martine had listened! Richard Duncan was indeed a mysterious man, living a bitter life in the Scottish Highlands. — The townsfolk spoke about him in whispers, not daring to voice the truth—the truth about his fiancée's death. For they believed that the laird himself had murdered the woman he'd loved. Now Martine was trapped by this man—bewitched by his magnetic black gaze. All her struggles to escape were in vain. She was irresistibly drawn to a man who loved no one but the ghost of the woman who had died—the woman they said he'd killed.