In the Scottish Highlands legend is as powerful as the sword-and nowhere is that more true than in the remote village of Loch Aranoch. Its mysterious ruler Judith MacAlasdair is fiercely protective of her land-and her secrets. If anyone were to find out what she really was she and her entire clan would be hunted down as monsters.<br><br>William Arundell is on the trail of a killer. Special agent for an arcane branch of the English government his latest assignment has led him to a remote Highland castle and the undeniably magnetic lady who rules there. Yet as lies begin to unravel and a dark threat gathers William finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the mystery of the Highlands . . . and the woman he can neither trust nor deny.<br><br>He prays she isn't the murderer; he never dreamed she'd be a dragon.