Lady Romayne Smithfield's impetuous romantic plans turned to disaster when highwaymen overtook her carriage and stopped her elopement with the fashionable Bradley Montcrief. Narrowly escaping with her life, Romayne found an unlikely rescuer in a thick-brogued, hard-muscled Scotsman. But where did that leave her? Alone all night in a howling blizzard with the most impossible, impertinent—and irresistible—man she had ever met! Must she marry him just to avoid scandal? No, a thousand times no, she would not wed a barbarian Highlander...even one who kissed as delightfully as Major James MacKinnon. But when he revealed his true motive—and the clandestine mission that would make their marriage of convenience a necessity, Romayne knew she'd be a heroine, the sensation of the season. She might be a make-believe bride, but she was falling in love with her handsome consort...for real!