{"product_id":"the-highlanders-substitute-bride-a-heart-wrenching-tale-of-forbidden-love-and-clan-loyalty","title":"The Highlander's Substitute Bride: A Heart-Wrenching Tale of Forbidden Love and Clan Loyalty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe was the spare. The forgotten one. The daughter of no consequence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen her sister disappears hours before a peace-sealing Highland wedding, Mairi Fergusson has thirty minutes to decide: wear the veil, or lose everything.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe walks into the mist in the wrong woman's gown, toward the most feared man in Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Callum MacKendrick lifts the veil and sees who is standing at his altar - he says nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe says the vows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe has been waiting for her for three years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince a treaty negotiation where he watched her silently correct her father's figures through a ledger, passing the corrections to the clerk without anyone looking up. He asked his man who she was. He was told: the middle daughter, the one of no consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe disagreed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe MacKendrick keep is cold, suspicious, and full of people who have cause to distrust the Fergusson name.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMairi arrives with nothing but her intellect, a memory for clan law, and a secret knowledge of Gaelic she has been hiding since childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe catalogues the library. She treats a child's fever at midnight in a downpour. She stands on the wall walk above forty armed men and defeats them with a legal argument she memorised from her father's own books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe earns her place. One careful choice at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut someone is still trying to destroy the peace they are both risking everything to build.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the weapon being used against them is Mairi herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer father taught her to be useful. He simply never told her how useful she was going to be to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the mistake she didn't know she was making sends two men to the healer's room and the trust between her and Callum to ash, Mairi understands the full shape of the trap she was placed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe cannot explain her way back into his faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can only be who she is, and wait for him to choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE HIGHLANDER'S SUBSTITUTE BRIDE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers Scottish historical romance featuring: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA heroine who solves the climax with clan law, not luck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA hero who knew from the altar - and chose her anyway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gaelic word \u003cem\u003eMo sholas-anam\u003c\/em\u003e - my soul-light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAtmospheric Isle of Skye setting, 1740s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull emotional resolution with series potential\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerfect for fans of atmospheric Highland romance who want a heroine with brains, a hero with depth, and a love story built on something that lasts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46827418124498,"sku":"9798233229763","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8b6dfe60-2b92-4b84-8150-76728d2b1a82.jpg?v=1778603544","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-highlanders-substitute-bride-a-heart-wrenching-tale-of-forbidden-love-and-clan-loyalty","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}