The Laird Returns — Veronica Bale

Volume three, The Laird Returns, concludes Veronica Bale's gripping debut Highland Loyalties trilogy.

Tensions rise in the Highlands as the Scots fight for their independence from English tyranny. But amidst the chaos, Robbie MacGillivray and Jane Sewell are able to carve out a sliver of happiness for themselves, however brief and intermittent their time together may be. The odds are against them: he is the dispossessed chief of Clan Gillivray; she is the young, English wife of his enemy, Lord Reginald D'Aubrey, Baron of Dunloch.

Those odds will eventually topple their precariously balanced happiness. Infuriated by the MacGillivray chief's royal pardon, Lord Reginald will stop at nothing to bring the chief of Clan Gillivray to his death. Caught in the middle of the conflict, Jane must decide, once and for all, where her loyalties lie â€" with her English King, Edward the Longshanks, or with her love, her Highlander?

And what will she do when the true laird of Dunloch returns?