My Wicked Highlander
The MacDonell Brides Trilogy
Chapter One
England, 1597
For Isobel MacDonell being a witch was hell. Living in constant fear that what she said or did would send her to the gallows. The image of hanging by the neck until dead caused an involuntary tightening of her throat muscles. It was an especially frightening thought after reading that horrific pamphlet detailing the torture and execution of witches just across the border. Lord and Lady Attmore had gone to great lengths to keep the pamphlet from her, but Isobel had finally managed to acquire one and read it with morbid fascination. But then everything about Scotland was fascinating to Isobel.
Still, fear of discovery did not deter Isobel from her chosen path. She hurried through the forest, glancing repeatedly over her shoulder, worried someone had followed her. She shouldn't be doing such things. In his letters had her father not cautioned her repeatedly to have a care? To be mindful of all her mother had suffered?
I am careful! But those atrocities happened in Scotland -- another world, it seemed, and one she barel ... read full excerpt from: My Wicked Highlander: The Macdonell Brides Trilogy ebook
