Untamed — Hope Tarr

They were friends -- brothers -- the Men of Roxbury, their young lives spent in an orphanage together. Now they are men grown. Two have found happiness. But the third?

Patrick O'Rourke is a rough and ready Scotsman, and a "verra" successful businessman. Lady Katherine Lindsey is a beautiful English spinster, a gentlewoman. At least, so she seems on the surface. But when she finds herself blackmailed into accepting a marriage of convenience with the handsome Scot, she lets Rourke see another side of her.

Following a hasty wedding, Rourke sweeps a seething Lady Katherine from the elegant and refined drawing rooms of west London to his crumbing castle in the Scottish Highlands. His sole guide to wooing and bedding his apparently untamable bride is a copy of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," given to him by his two well-meaning friends.

As their lessons in humility progress according to script, however, Rourke discovers Kat's shrewish demeanor is a mask for a warm, generous, and loving heart. And, as the passion sparking between them flares to full-on flame, Rourke finds he may well be the one in danger of being tamed.