Niamh was one of the guests invited to the Laird of McIrvine’s castle. After spending three weeks where the Laird rarely showed his face, Niamh is ready to return home. Only…she gets left behind, accidentally. And now she is trapped in this beastly Laird’s home until the snow clears. Laird Hunter is always calm, until provoked; thus the nickname ‘Beast’. And the little minx that resides all alone in his castle provokes him more than anyone. And like a beast, he has to restrict his urges, lest he devours her…